Can't comment on much of it having been there only Sunday afternoon and Monday and preoccupied with Song Links for much of that, but I have to agree with Eliza (or was it her mum) that Jim Causley's singing was a real discovery.

Together with Emily Portman and Lauren McCormick, two much younger performers whose names I forget (at the Arts Centre concert on Sunday night), and the likes of Hekety/Crucible who I've seen elsewhere and many others, the folk scene seems to be getting flooded with young talent and looking very healthy generally.

Verity Sharp's piece on R3 Saturday afternoon, about the youthful English ceilidh scene around the dance house and LNE, was also remarkably positive and accurate for a piece of broadcast journalism about English folk music. I wasn't there for any of that this year, but imagine it was like recent years I've seen.

Anahata