That's great news Don, and you're not alone in that. There is plenty of good news if you go looking. But I'm sure you'd agree that if the anything-goes ethos has not been there in the first place it would not have been able to contract. I'm obviously hugely in favour of the promotion of traditional music, specially English because I'm an Englishman (and even more specially Aurignais!) but I'm not loosing sight of another priority - live music, real communities enjoying music, people developing as players, singers and performers - all this is as important to me as the promotion of Trad. In the folk world we get to promote both - which is why I'm all for plurality. But above all, I'm for understanding the other guy's rights.
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