Thanks Mark. I agree with the general point you are making and the cautions others have made earlier. The range of music looks good whilst still staying in that area we call folk from these Islands or some such thing.

Irish people have been bringing music to Manchester for hundreds of years, they still do and it's wonderful. But to just push the idea a bit further Ukranians and Sikhs, to name but a few, have been playing music in Manchester for something like 50 odd years and its just as exciting as lots of other stuff and it is now Greater Manchester community music, just as much as Irish music is. So can we have a bit now and again?