The Luke Daniels and Donald Grant ensemble were performing "Islands", a piece commissioned by The Performing Rights Society Foundation with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Scottish Arts Council, so I wonder if they could be called a folk creationists. For me, this melding of the folk and classical traditions was the highlight of the festival, well that, Mawkin:Causley and the West Berks beer.

How many folkies does it take to change a light bulb? Only one but we all like to join in, dispute over who really invented the light bulb, say that there are alternative and better ways to do it and that the original instructions are to be found in a library manuscript.