[RosieCotton]

What is "folk music," anyway? My memory is that it's either left wingers and commies like Peter, Paul and Mary or Pete Seeger trying to be be "working class," or stage acts like the Kingston Trio.

Well, that's certainly one subclass of "folk" music. Trouble is that there isn't any surefire definition. I have a hard time considering some of the "folk" singers of the sixties to be real folk musicians, and they do seem kinda fake to me. And the people who follow in their footsteps are at LEAST as nutsy as they were, politically speaking.

And then there's bluegrass! Bluegrassers have a tendency to be very conservative. Plenty of Bush and NRA stickers on cases at the last festival I went to. At a folkie gathering, those'll get you...well...can't say shot, but tongue-lashed, at least!

[Sam Cree]

I like bluegrass alot.

And I kind of consider "country" music to be our authentic folk music.

I wonder if I'd like the Celtic music that's always being discussed on this thread. I like "Galway Bay" and "Danny Boy," but don't know if they really qualify.