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What an amazing experience to have the BOTMC online this year! Many thanks to all who attended and performed and taught and lectured and especially HUGE THANKS to our volunteers, who made the whole thing possible. ​ We were very moved by the anti-racism statement which the Plaid Strangers crafted and incorporated into their concert set. They have graciously given us permission to adapt it for the BOTMC. Here is our statement: ​ As appreciators and torch bearers of early American traditional music, the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention actively questions what it means to share this music in the context of systemic racism. We wish to acknowledge the immense contribution of Black and Indigenous musicians to the music presented by the BOTMC, in the past and in the present. We acknowledge the forces that have historically denied these contributions and that worked to sever their living connections to this music. We also acknowledge our own complicity in this oppression. As we play this music, we are reckoning with our history and present condition. We hope to build a road toward reparation. Looking ahead, please SAVE THE DATES for next year's BOTMC: Sept. 21-26, 2021 . We've invited all the performers who were going to play this year (that includes most of the musicians who are part of the 2020 Online BOTMC) to come next year instead.