As Steve says, once you look around a bit you realise that things are not that bad. What gives me hope is that there are people a generation younger than me - and, increasingly, a generation younger than that - who play traditional tunes and do it well, sing traditional songs and do it beautifully, and do these things anywhere that will have them.

If you look at the scene and all you see is ugly people doing bad performances of boring songs, then frankly you're not looking or listening properly. This goes for Al and Musket as much as - or more than - Jim.