Sian,

Thanks for your interesting input. It's certainly food for thought.

You wrote I do worry, john, when you say, "Some of our activists are non-folky, ie. village people taking part in a village activity - they never go to festivals or buy a folk cd."

I'm not quite sure what worries you. The sentence was meant in a positive way, ie. they don't need to be 'folkies' in order to actively contribute to the running of folk type activities. To them it's just stuff to do as a very sociable hobby. I don't really like the term 'folk music' - the invention of Victorian collectors and if people can enjoy and even enable the music outside the framework of the 'folk scene' then that's good. It doesn't disable the folk enthusiasts or the folk academics etc. and adds something refreshing into the pot.