Just not my experience though. I can only talk about the young ones from this area who've got their degrees but I've seen no such arrogance etc. In fact just the opposite they slip back into the sessions on their return as if they've never left. We have a few, mostly young girl fiddlers, from this area who've been through the Newcastle course. Carly Blain was at our session just a few weeks ago and it started off a normal fiddle session and by the evening's end it had turned into a bit of a rammy with Carly and her sister singing Kenny Roger's song The Gambler and having a right good laugh. Shona Mooney is another one who is completely unaffected. I shared a stage with her last year as well as local worthies Matt Seattle and David Kilpatrick. To tell you the truth I initially had the "what am I doing here" feeling as I've little gig experience or musical talent compared to the others and they all couldn't be nicer - especially Shona who was very obviously keen to play with me. So I am not saying there is no-one with that attitude the banjo player is describing - but it is clearly completely unfair to tar them all with the same stick.