weelittledrummer says:

" until we have a coherent body of work, the sound that ordinary English men and women make with a guitar naturally - reflecting the way they sing and dance - rather than some oh so abstract piece of artifice .... so long English folk music will be on its way to the museum."

I was fascinated with this observation that guitars are pre-requisites for performing English folk song & dance music. Think Spiers & Boden, Eliza Carthy, the Threlfalls, Katherine Tickell, John Kirkpatrick, Pete Coe, the Old Swan Band, the Bismarks,..... the list goes on and on......