Ms Hartley's piece is clearly the work of an idealist with a passion for the artists whose work she enjoys. That's good.

But at the risk of bring called a traddie or 'typical of the problem with the folk scene' I don't see the point of arguing that one act is 'folk' (or another is not) without telling us the reasons - I'd like to have the opportunity to work out whether I agree.

I suspect there's all sorts of considerations at work in the background here, including a right wing magazine'song standing antipathy towards the BBC, and any number of folk and mainstream business issues way beyond my knowledge...


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