@ Jim Carroll

'I don't know enough of what's happening in the UK'...

Yet you announced yourself as the 'spectre at the feast', and have spent much of this thread expressing your view that English folk clubs have dwindled in number due to a) not having any 'folk' on and b) poor performance standards, though, as you have emphasised, not meaning this in any 'elitist' sense.

Perhaps you ought to have accepted the invitation proferred in the intitial thread?

By the way, and apologies for not being clear, in previous discussions you have expressed a view that the tunes to folk songs were relatively important, that it is the words that appeal. I was suggesting that the music is crucial to a 'song' in support of Bignige, who said that people would always make music, which I hope is true. I apologise again if this is not clear.