Late arrival here, alerted by postings in another place:

"Be interesting though to see how many Mongolian nose flute players, etc. - the sort of thing Froots has so selflessly devoted its pages to advancing the caree s of, whilst the people who have made the Englsih folkscene work have seen their life's work relegated to the 'and the rest' column - support this initiative."

I consulted the oracle today and asked how many times Froots has featured Mongolian nose flute players or, say, to pick a random example out of the air, Derek Brimstone. The answer came - "never, in either case." Though the oracle did reveal that Froots had once published a letter from a certain folk club comedian guitarist complaining about "funny foreign coloured people" on the front of Froots, but has never, as far as he remembers, published one from a Mongolian nose flute player complaining about people playing The Wild Rover.

I rest my coat.

Ken.