Excellent programme. I was surprised how many of the tunes I knew or had heard. I can see my weekly trips to Caedmon Folk at Gateshead have infected me with quite a lot of Northumbrian Repertoire

Vectis, if you want to hear I can recommend her albums. "On Keilder Side" and "Northumbrian Collection" are my personal favourites.

Shields Folk, your last posting illustrates what many from elsewhere in the region resent about some from Newcastle. It's something of a mini Londoncentric mentality - a tendency to forget that there is more than Newcastle to North East England. Your dismissive attitude to Gateshead typifies that outlook.