During the 1950's Ruth, the Bishop of Somewhere JB Philips wrote a translation of the gospel called Your God is Too Small.

With the best will in the world Ruth, your tradition is miniscule - it excludes nearly everybody except those toadies of trad, like yourself.

Your folk music tradition is too small.

A folk music that alienates about 90% of the poplualtion is a nonsense. if you bothered to read about the the roots of the ideas you pretend to understand, you would know that Bert Lloyd who put the package, as an articulate statement into being in Folk Song in England during the 40's was a translator of surrealist poetry.

I have often suspected that subscribing to a folk culture that virtually nobody in the country knew about was an elaborate exercise of the surrealistic ideal.

My view of folk music is intelligent and coherent and borne of many years listening to the Bellamy style yelps and the Waterson/Carthy lugubrious savaging of my native tongue.

I am entitled to my opinion and entitled to express it. And I would like to hear a folk music of my country that the people would respond to immediately - as they do in other countries with their folk music.

If there is anything except personal abuse to your point of view, I would like to hear it.

I suspect I will have a very long wait.