I guess this is as good a time as any to jump in feet first, and since politics is the flavour of the week, there's something I really want to know. Are most folk music fans still classic liberals? From the response Mudcatters have given last night's election it would seem so, but since political singer songwriters are no longer in the vanguard I'd think there would be a more even split.

Irish, Scottish, and American old tyme musicians wouldn't neccessarily be as influenced by Pete Seeger Woody Guthrie and the old leftists as the sixties and seventies people would, so is folk music - other than Mudcat - getting more mainstream? Here in Canada I'm not sure if it is.

iggy