For all I know ALL of the UK Mudcatters are black. In all truth this would be very difficult to establish - if it was thought worth the effort to try.

Their specific contribution to UK folk music would be equally difficult to establish and it is also probably better not to try too hard but just to value it. Calypso is one area that has certainly directly influenced our folk and popular music.

But all of our music has been and is still influenced by all who have made their homes here and by the music of many cultures who have not. The blues and its earlier African roots has probably had the greatest indirect influence. So we have this African influence coming to us indirectly via North America and with people coming here to live from the West Indies and also directly from Africa.