I'm all for including non-local ethnic music from communities within England, alongside foreign teams. It's a recognition that we are a multi-ethnic country - but in a context where the native ethnic English traditions are all around, and valued.

I much prefer when the foreign teams (incuidngthe local "foreign" teams) are dedicated amateurs, for whom it's a holiday, in which they stay the whole week and rough it like most of the festival goers, rather than professionals dropping in for another gig on a frantic tour. Cheaper too, I'd have thought, but that's not the main reason to prefer doing it that way.

And I'd like to see the festival as it changes move away from the show-biz emphasis that has started to creep in over the years, for understandible reasons.