Tony - its not their opinion that is trivial - but the debate about words that deflect from the issue. To my way of thinking its the sort of thing that lawers do. The thread also nearly developed into - acoustic or electric - a debate in its own right but not the main content of this one. I do note that it is not - as far as I can make out - anybody in the category that has complained about the appelation. Apologies if I'm wrong.

There have been some interesting and thoughtful answers to an observation made initialy at Broadstairs, that I think has wider relevance to a lot of folk activity. The same issues might be raised about jazz, or voluntary work for a trade union, and other things I can't think of at the moment.

I am still more of a pessimist than an optimist on the issue of the future of folk because of the lack of ------- ( whatever people under 40 like to be called ).
FloraG