Dave Polshaw 15 Jun 08 - 10:48 AM - I have purposely left the played songs off so we do not get into disagreements about whether they were folk songs, what their origins were and so on.

Surely the songs / tunes - are the subject of this thread not the performers.
In my local clubs (at least 14/wk NE England) the majority of players are locals (therefore English) but the songs are split between Scottish, Irish & American with a rare English song. Even more rare is a Welsh song.
Majority of tunes will be Irish with a smattering of Scottish.

From: Folkiedave - You mean like Saltburn and the Fred Jordan Award for unaccompanied traditional singing? Or Satlburn and the singer songwriter competition?
Are these restricted to English material?