The "guy called John Howson" will presumably be the banjo playing other half of Katie Howson both from the Old Hat Band who runs Veteran music and is deeply involved with the East Anglian Trad Music Trust, I would have thought(?). Via John we have access to such things of archieve recordings of people like Oscar Woods and Bob Cann (I'm looking at this from a melodeon player's perspective)and all sorts of things like that. He should be an asset to the team though I'm a little suprised at his involvement as he's based in Suffolk as far as I know...