The thing about old time music is that it is all about community -- finding it, being part of it, passing it along. These are the folks who stood by us in the beginning.  Without them FOB would not have gone beyond 6 beginning banjo players trying to figure out the tab to June Apple and remember to all start the B part at the same time.  These folks guided us along the way with gifts of friendship and inspiration and by sharing with us what they had previously discovered from their own mentors.  Brooke and Diane gave us countless banjo lessons.  Listening to them play and sing was what inspired us to work hard.  Jill made it her mission to get us off of tab as well as instigated our first real jam complete with a fiddler.  Alan was that fiddler and he spent all day guiding us through tune after lovely tune, thus gently seeding the idea that "Oh wow! It's not just about banjos."  Andrea sealed our jamming fates when she sent us her student Marsha, our first very own FOB fiddler.  Howard, Hubie and Jim came to a jam and then miraculously kept on coming. They kept us on track, introduced us to the larger old time community, showed us tunes and made us sound better then our parts.  We feel continuously lucky to know these folks.