I endorse Vic Smith's comments. I too have been a contributor, going back to my first review in 1983 and my first article in 1988. I've also been a subscriber since Southern Rag days, and have every copy on my (bulging) shelves. I have many other folk magazines as well, from the 1950s through to the present day (more bulging shelves) and whilst all the current magazines have their relative strengths, fRoots has been the best produced, consistently published and most professional of them all. It has championed and challenged and even if you have less interest in the musics from further afield, there has always been more than enough content from these shores. All credit to Ian Anderson. It's a sad day.
Derek Schofield