Folkiedave is happy to reveal his identity as Dave Eyre. As for wearing hats - only rarely. I post at Folk Roots occasionally as Dave Eyre. And on the BBC board - again rarely - under the same name. I don't have multiple identities. I lose my cookie occasionally.

Name a 1960's melodeon player!!

Percy Brown
Font Watling
Oscar Woods

In fact unless you went to sessions in East Anglia you would not have heard of these. But now look at the scene nationwide. Richard Arrowsmith, Dan Quinn, Matt Quinn, Liz Giddings, John Spiers, Saul Rose, Simon Care, Matt Crum, Andy Cutting, Brian Peters and so on. And I bet anyone could name a number more.

Fiddle players in the 60's? Dave Swarbrick, and traditional players obviously - not a great many more.

Other instruments? I have seen piano and saxophone and bass-clarinet and trombone and tuba and so on. Brenda Power and Will Pound have given a boost to the mouth organ.

Of course, in the 60s, it was clubs and I wouldn't have known where to find a session

I suppose the point I am struggling towards (and this is by no means fully formed) is that there has been a shift and I think we can make a good case for this being a new revival.











And they are just the well-known names. Many morris teams seem to have really good melodeon players.