"Stop defending your right to ignore education."

We have free amateur folk sessions in UK - fully open to the public - people run them in pubs. But they're not good enough because there must be a free festival with free beer with the free folk.

We have near to nothing folk camps too - 'mini fests' in fields where there is even free beer. But *they're* not good enough because they are word-of-mouth and the people who go to the trouble of arranging them prefer the people attending to actually be interested in folk music.

We have big folk festivals with amateur fringe activities that are fully open to the public and *free* in return for helping out (that's known as bartering services - now there's a traditional concept). But that's not good enough, because no-one should have to so much as help out in return for a free festival.

We have absolutely free folk festivals like Leigh-on-Sea fully open to the public where you don't have to do anything at all whatsoever but get hammered on vodka in coke bottles (as I've observed). But they're not good enough either because they're funded by local councils. And that's all wrong too for some other reason I can't recall.

Lots of people already doing free folk, lots of different ways to do free folk currently going on, lots of choices available to anyone wanting to get involved for free. None of them involve pooping in hedges though, so they're simply not good enough.. Damned elitists!