No, because we *really* want our children to go back to being share-croppers...

Some may and some may hope their children become powerful Wall-Street bankers - but most I hope, would like to think that some of the genuine community values passed on to them and which produced the music, will be passed on through their children and not sacrificed entirely to some illusionary materialist dream.

I expect that children of UK families not able to provide university education in folk music should be able to make music as good as those who few who do. The danger is that it is only those fortunate to be formally trained in this field, are the only ones who will be expected to make a valuable contribution or the only ones to have their music listened to when they do..................

For example - it may not be neatly packaged as such but there are today many children of traveller's families (unlikely to be receiving the benefits of a university education) who are actually producing real folk music.

Perhaps we will also be seeing articles in Froots waxing lyical about these young musicians? Or perhaps not