Many years ago, I asked an audience of bluegrass fans who'd come to a folk concert series I ran, why they never come to hear folksingers. They said that they don't want to sit and listen to a whole evening of protest songs. I responded that protest songs are only a very small part of folk music, and that most of the performers who played in the series I ran couldn't be characterized as "protest singers." They might do a couple of songs about current situations they wanted to comment on, musically, but most of the songs were certainly not "protest songs."

As for 9/11, whether it reverses normal terminology or not, most people know what it means. I mean, c'mon... do you argue about whether Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen ninety two or fourteen hundred and ninety two? And where has anyone ever seen the fourth OF July referred to in writing as 4th July? Is Christmas ever written out as being 25th December? Seems like everyone is avoiding Larry's subject.

Jerry