I've always described the work of organisers like you as essential to the future of folk song - you and Joy Ashworth and Ted Poole and all the other folk-face workers have my undying respect for that, Wow! That's a turn up. I'm honoured to be included in such company. (I expect you know that Ted Poole died last week after fifty years of support for the Swindon Folk Club of which he was a founder.) I have to say, I have never heard you express any such feelings before. You generally seem to regard us with contempt. I really did hope I would get an answer to my simple question, "What are you actually doing NOW towards promoting traditional music to a new generation?" but I hoped in vain.
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