"Jim is not all that knowledgeable on local traditions in the north"
Don't know why you should say that Steve - have been known to sing from my own tradition, You'll Never Walk Alone' and 'Ferry Cross The Mersey' with the best of them.
Seriously, it depends on what you mean by "local traditions in the north" - virtually all (a tiny handful of exceptions) of them were long gone by the time I became involved and I'm not aware of very much in the way of in depth work carried out on them when they were thriving.
More later
Jim Carroll