This won't help a lot with your assigment, Fay!

I can remember as a kid in the 50s, we sang stuff from the Cecil Sharp collection at school. It never put me of -- quite the opposite (although I've never used a piano accompanist since those days). Some of it was British and some from the Appalachians, so it was a good grounding for when I took a stronger interest in my teens.

Mind you, when I was about six I had to spend a tern at another shool (long story, not relevant), and they did folk dancing. It never made sense to me then, and still doesn't! The only person who ever managed to get me to do folk dancing since I left there was Sybil Clarke of Blessed Memory, and even the Kray brothers wouldn't have argued with her.

Ad then again, my grandmother wore clogs ...

Steve "Sedentary" Parkes