I can't say it actually bothers me Jim, if I DON'T hear a tradtional folksong all night. As long as people are singing in folk clubs - the possibility of folksong is there.

I'm sorry if our analyses of the great decline are different. But we were both there. I was chatting with Derek Brimstone only last week - and he must have played nearly every folk club in England. More than both of us. His memory of the actual events pretty much mirrors mine.

I'm glad you've found an oasis of tradtional music to retire to. To some of us folksong is a long established artform in England and it renews itself without consciously aping the archaic and esoteric forms of the past.