hi breezy

You are right that TW "found" Eva Cassidy ( although she had died before he did so).And if the true was known it was "Paully" Walters who brought Eva to TW's attention.

He also brought a lot of "folksy" and Countryish music to the BBC.

I can think of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, Mary Black and even "Little Wizened Willy Nelson" as only a few of the many that he brought to main-stream listeners.

For me at any rate he introduced Katie Meluha when I would not have heard her anywhere else.

As for the main thrust of this thread I think that Camilla Kerslake makes a very good fist of Slowly She Moves Through the Fair.

Many traditional folk songs have been "resurrected" and up-dated and many died-in-the-wool folkies don't appreciate it, could it be that what they don't like is the word COMMERCIALISM ??

However songs like these do help people to find folk music and look for more.

Camilla is IMHO being groomed as a clear competition for Katherine Jenkins, and that can't be a bad thing.

Cheers

John