what is traditional today is just what is fashionable at this moment,what allways amazes me is that wherever I travel up and down the country to various singerounds /singers nights /open mikes etc,you hear the same narrow set of songs which seems to be getting narrower aka show of hands/spiers and bowden me thinks there is a folk mafia regurgetating the same old songs in the same old ways so i say long live innovation not just tradition travesty even though theres no such thing as a new tune or even a new song there can allways be a new twist or a differnt feel/emotion .that can touch the parts other songs fail to reach, regards
                                     david