Well said Marilyn.
We wouldn't be able to run without you. We need someone who is both a confident musician and knowledgeable about dance, and since you have worked with me and with Peter to find tunes that work well with particular dances you are. Also all your work on arranging tunes for us.
We have offered people the chance to have-a-go at leading the band, no one has taken up that challenge.

I go to the Lancashire Folk Band Workshop (click on Local Bands and scroll down). I often find that the tunes that I would like to play slowly and expressively need to be played faster than I can manage, to be dance speed. And at Have-a-Go, since we are enlarging our range of tunes to suit the callers and avoid boring the musicians, and since not everyone has time to download the dots to practise (I know that because I am asked for copies on the night), we start the tunes slowly, then try to get them up to dance speed.