I have made sure to catch Winter Wilson every time I go to Moira Furnace Folk Festival and agree entirely, Joe.

On a complete tangent, have you ever seen Mostly Autumn? They are from York and while not exactly folk, you can certainly see the folk and folk rock influences. I heard them via a Spotify recommendation and a few weeks later saw that they were on at the Crescent so I made a day and night of it in York. I had a great time!

Anyhow, back to the thread...

I think I'll leave y'all to it

What, Jim? Again! You have made it very clear what you think about the state of folk in the UK. You made the decision to leave it and go somewhere that suits you better. That's great. Good for you. There are many, as witnessed in these threads, that are more than happy with the state of folk, so we have stayed. It seems pointless to me to keep telling us it is shite when, to us, it is obviously not. You had a choice. Stay and try to fix it or leave. You chose the latter. Nothing at all wrong with that. I only wish you would really leave us to enjoy it rather than keep on telling us how wrong we all are.

But I very much doubt you will.