Dick Miles: as I said several hundred years up this thread, all those names would be the people Colin Irwin referred to as " "Those inspired by the early British folk revival pioneers of the 1950s and '60s to champion the music through the barren years."

Ian Anderson said above: "Nobody's denying that there were people who, as Colin Irwin says, were there to "champion the music through the barren years" but it wasn't possible (nor, dare I say it, very interesting to the target audience of Womex delegates) to namecheck them all."

We all understand that you're sore about not getting a namecheck. But considering that you bang on about people marketing and promoting and commercialising the music, this sounds awfully like the whining of somebody with a grudge that they didn't get famous. Somebody with a massive chip on their shoulder for it, at that. If pointing that out makes me "a twat", then to descend to your level it takes one to know one.

Has anybody heard the CD yet?

No matter how many people were "championing the music through the barren years", and regardless of how old they were at the time, unfortunately they didn't capture the imagination of a wider audience the way that Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Kathryn Tickell and others did later on. That's not a value judgement, it's a statement of historical fact.