Heather McCarthy Quotations

We had 135,000 people last year. We are putting infrastructure into place for a similar crowd. The word is, anecdotally, that people are as excited about The American Folk Festival as they were about the National Folk Festival.

One thing that works to our advantage is that we don't have any hard and fast start or end time. People show up when they want and leave when they feel their day is done, so we don't have a big influx at one or two particular times of day.

We've got the same kind of diversity as in the previous years. We have some of the same genres this time, since Irish music and Cajun music have been such big hits.

The idea is to evaluate the effectiveness of peer-on-peer training with the ultimate goal of reducing the numbers or prolonging the start of drug abuse.