Paul ,did I claim that ?
no, what I claimed is that many of us were playing the music and doing imaginative/exciting things back in the late seventies
my ex wife and myself were among the first people to introduce the clarinet and bass clarinet and use it with the concertina in arrangements of traditional music in the folk revival.
I am also claiming that we[along with those already mentioned] helped to keep the folk club scene going,and presented our music in an interesting exciting way without attempting to over commercialise the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqpgT0ClK4
that was 25 years before Waterson Carthy,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcBocS_x_M&feature=related