a comprehensive picture of what is really happening on the uk folkscene

. . . is absolutely not what fRoots (not hard to get the title right) sets out to do. I'd leave Ian A to answer this but he's pissed off to Seville.

He said so above "fRoots does not claim to be a "folk" magazine (whatever that is) but traditional music is a major part of its content". It has a clearly defined editorial policy about what it will cover and what it does not.

And as I said above but Dick has apparently missed: "fR doesn't cover every musical type or it would be the size of the Argos catalogue and may as well change its name to Mojo 2". Maybe Comhaltas publishes a comic surveying th Irish showband scene? I know not.