Well, I've got five years to go to fifty, six to get over it. I am one of the youngest in my community, but I know a fifteen-year-old who sings sea shanties and a thirty-year-old who is a fine traditional-style singer. My former fiddle teacher, Laura Risk, was nineteen when I met her. There seems to be more family participation in the local (San Francisco) Scottish music community than in the Irish or "folk music" community (generally offshoots of the San Francisco Folk Music Club). Why this is so, I don't know. Unfortunately for me I love Scots ballads but find most Scottish dance tunes boring.