Even when it comes to English-language songs folk music goes a lot wider than "British-heritage trad ballads".

I'd like to see the Mudcat community broadening out to include more people with an interest in other folk music traditions. Of course I'd like the same to happen in the folk music community fenerally. In time maybe - I can remember a time in England when there was pretty well a complete lack of contact between the folk club scene and the immigrant Irish music scene.   That's hard to imagine now - but we've still got that situation for other immigrant and post-immigrant communities.

I've always been a bit surprised that the rich multi-ethnic musical scene in the USA doesn't appear to be too obviously reflected in the Mudcat. Not only Black music, but also Klezmer, Mexican, Cajun, Polish... Not just the music, but the people from the communities that keep the music alive.