If you mean the clubs & sessions where middle class white people go to sing olde Englishe & Scottishe folke songes and play the Irish tune, then you won't find many black people there. (It always seems a shame to me that British folk music prefers to live in a tiny ghetto where it's not heard by the majority of British people, of any colour or culture)

Merina, I am sure you didn't mean anything offensive and I am honestly the last person to take offense at most things but...

How did you know there was a but coming;-)

I must take exeption to the type of attitude that is so dissparaging about British folk music. There is nothing at all wrong with British folk music. Why on earth are the media and, quite often, people involved in the folk 'scene', whatever that me be, so willing to take the mickey out of it? If a few more people spread the word about what a rich culture and range of music is thriving in the 'white middle class' clubs then perhaps we would have a wider range of people attending?

If I were to say "If you mean the clubs & sessions where ganja smoking black people go to sing old jazz & blues songes and lay down some funky rhythms" I would be acused of stereotyping. Yet people seem to think it is perfectly acceptable to do exactly the same thing to me and the music I love. Do you think that is fair?

I know I am probably misconstruing what you meant so please forgive me if that is the case. I do feel very strongly about this though and feel I need to rant and rave occasionaly when I see my own culture being treated unfairly.

Cheers

Dave the Gnome