The lady running the folk club at the Y Theatre in Leicester makes a serious attempt to outreach to other racial groups in our community. And so does Nick ellis at the Loughborough club.

I expect its a class thing. In a generation or two, they will be up there in their fishermen's smocks, with their real ale tankards, saying, This is the ballad of tamm Linn and I only started learning at half an hour ago, so I hope you don't mind if I get it a bit wrong - just trying to remember the tune, does anybody else know it? how DOES it start now......?dum de dum dum...

And heres a slip jig - sorry if my fiddles out of tune but I've been on my gite in the Dordogne for three months and I didn't take it with me - well it was that or the golf clubs and there isn't room in a smart car......

they'll go down a storm.