Knut from Norway. I think this tread started with the question Who is a Traditional Musician? Up here in the north we concider a traditional norwegian musican or singer a person that perform tunes from a certain area, tunes they have learnt from older musician og singers from the same area. People that preserve the musical inheritance, not by going to any sort of musical school, but by listening and learning from generation to generation. You can also hear it when a norwegian fiddler introduce a tune he's gonna play. Then he usually says he's gonna play or sing a tune after a certain long gone fiddler or folksinger. That means he's gonna play or sing it the way he,or mayby even his father or grandfather learnt it from that old fiddler or singer. That's what I would call a Traditional Musician.