PS, if I had to guess at a number of people actually earning the whole of their living from folk and similar music (so excluding those with part early pensions etc - which I think takes out even Ian Bruce as he got some sort of payoff when he was removed from conventional economic activity, as his song "Blue Denim Days" relates (if my memory serves)) I'd put it at more like 100 than 1,000 in England. I must know to nod to even if not to be bosom buddies with probably half of the regular folkers in Kent and environs and I can only think of one who AFAIK makes an entire living (no pension, no benefits, no other income) from folking, and he is definitely on the singer-songwriter side.