I seem to remember various Scots coming to Cape Breton in the sixties and seventies in order to reclaim certain lost aspects of their own folk culture...

One of the many reasons I read Mudcat is to make note of the names of performers who are favoured by 'catters, be they UK, NA, or AUS, because I usually find something to like myself. I often manage to hear these performers on CBC Folkroots, along with many great Canadian folk artists (as an aside, it's curious that as a Canadian, I seem to have heard far, far more UK folk music than UK folks have heard Canadian). I'm quite curious about Show of Hands, since they are much talked about, but alas, their website loads only their name after fourteen long dialup minutes, and they don't seem to have made it to Folkroots.

Y'all should just come attend the Stan Rogers Festival this summer, and the Lunenburg Folk Festival, and hit Celtic Colours in CB in October. Blow all the quarrelsomes outta yer brains...