(Les, we sometimes dance it in Chorlton-cum-Hardy).

Dancing what then Mo?

I think a good tune is a good tune and a bit or lot of cross fertilization is an excellent thing. The people who play in the Beach in Chorlton on a Monday play as good Irish music as you will hear but they draw in other people and other tunes in too.

I think two barriers exist to more swapping and mixing. One is a reluctance amongst most of us to go out and find other cultures. The second is that many of us, and I speak for myself here, don't have a deep enough grasp of music to make good sounds with musical cultures with which we are unfamiliar.

A point I failed to make earlier, although I guess most of you spotted it, was that the origin of Gypsy/Romani people was North India and they really do add something special to the Show of hands version of Seven Yellow Gypsies.