Speculating about the shade of skin of Mudcatters is a bit irrelevant, since apart from the relatively few who stick pictures in the rogues gallery we're all invisible anyway.

Exchanging ideas about whether there are fewer black people around in the particular folk community where we are, compared with the general population, and if so why, is a more interesting question. I suspect it varies a lot more than people appreciate.

But I agree with those who've pointed out that there area lot of different types of folk music out there, and a lot of it is overwhelmingly "black" one way and another.

Taling of colour, I've been in the sun today and I'm scarlet.