Re GUEST's comment about Harriet Sim putting together the concert, and that you therfore couldn't accuse the beeb of not knowing about folk. I personally have no problem with the concert as such. It was a performance by a team put together for a touring show, with a particular concept "Daughters of Albion". Perfectly worthy idea, some weel experienced performers doing a bit of folk, bit of this and that. Happened to be compered by the currently most famous folkie(and 100% justified to be so, IMHO).
   Fine, you either like it or you don't. But the problems start, as a read of this virtually unanimous set of responses indicates, because this was presented as the culmination of the BBC's once in a decade profiling of British folk. This was the grand finale of "Folk Britannia". As decided by the BBC. And it stands or falls as that, not as a stand alone concert. On its own, it was a concert I would have been interested to go to. I wouldn't have given it ten out of ten, but I wouldn't have walked out either. But as the definitive statement of "Britfolk, where it's at now": well, read the previous thirty posts or whatever by the people who saw it. We all wanted it to be good: the BBC, at last, was giving some time to "our" music. Unfortunately, the response has been totally consistent. It didn't even start to deliver the goods. It didn't even look as anybody had given the subject a moment's thought.