Two points of the last 24 hours which I find most interesting are from Crow Sister (just after my last posting) and Spleen Cringe not long after.

Respectively:-

Folkiies of the older generation (most of us?) generally had good exposure to folk music and dance - whatever we thought of it at the time (English School context here, 1950s/60s ) Later generations didn't.

Influence of the 'Wicker Man' film.

Living now in such a media dominated era I suggest the following:

that supporters of traditional folk seriously try to get more 'Wicker Man' style films made that draw heavily on folk tradition. It could be for TV or low budget cinema - but why not aim high as well!

There are always Producers looking for new idea (alongside those turning out the Puntercrap) so why not get to know who's thinking about producing what, and make a few suggestions which would use traditional fol music?

This is decidedly off thread, though inspired by serious comments on this thread, so I'm going to raise a new thread on Getting folk music into cinema - or similar.

Ian Fyvie