I think to add to Dick's list are the many organisers who are also local performers and MCs at their events, and who often take on the difficult opening warm-up spots, fret over running orders, attendance figures and over-running etc., put up guest artists in their own homes without any reimbursement and all for the love of it, usually without wanting to make a penny out of any of it for themselves.

Boodly folk heroes, every one of them!