Thankyou people for your responses to date; I would agree with most of what all of you have to say, It is important to get kids to pick up an instrument, to learn a song that reflects their country's folk heritage. If the "Psudo stuff servers as an introductio, to them and to their pears, then it is to be applauded, or at least, encouraged......mind you, Riverdance is one of my favourit laxatives also!! And I am also pondering the 98% crap theory, and wondering which is the song that I perform that isn't!!