Thanks for letting me know that Joanie ... it did seem a bit of a hike in pricings! (I think by the way, that a fee used to be charged in earlier years , and _might_ reasonably be charged for the ballad sessions again (that'll probably get me lynched) .Whitby certainly do - but the format there does involve a great deal more guest input as such, and the price is not as great as the workshop one of £8 which was quoted erroneously in the working programme. ). I'll look forward to getting to one or two of the ballad sessions with Sheila in due course. The ballad session frequenters tend to be a small but rather dedicated band. :-)