I'm probably the one who mentioned Passim & the thing about Falcon Ridge. I guess if I want to hear what I like (& I only get hear that once in a great while) I'm going for the trad that I really love rather than having to sit through a show that maybe included 1 or 2 songs that I may like, though I would gladly put myself out to sit though a show or 2 of some of the above mentioned. I don't really have alot of opportunity or time to plow though the hoards of s/s to get to get to hear or get a taste of the cream so I guess I'm stuck waiting for the cream to rise to the top in it's own sweet time. Now saying that with no intention of offending any of the other s/s besides myself. here's a true story.

William Main Doerflinger was sneaking around, a few years ago, at one of the Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festivals, he's such a cute little ol fella that nobody really noticed this guy with his tape recorder, recording not the traditional songs at your traditional type workshop but he was taping only the contempory stuff don't ask me why, ask him, I don't possess near the foresight, debt, taste & class of this giant but then again I'm sure he loves what he does & hears too.

Barry