Thurg, thanks for taking an interest in my site.

Aye your point about being totally objective. Yes it seems to be a tricky one that, but when you say I:

"encourage Ulster musicians to depart from their traditional ways of doing things in order to accomodate your sense of where the music should be going."

I don't believe I'm actually asking them to depart from anything at all really, but rather, simply suggesting that it might be something they might like to consider, i.e. also embrace another approach to preserving their own store of tunes while perhaps enriching that store at the same time.

"Wouldn't it be more appropriate simply to observe and report what the musicians and their audiences/communities are doing?"

You are probably quite correct Thurg, but in my defense I must claim that I am new to this fence sitting malarky & still haven't developed a very good sense of 'balance'.

I know - I can only get better!