Ooooh, crikey. Who would I recommend? Well, the afore mentioned Mr Brimstone is always worth a listen. Not exactly new stuff but good all the same. I also recommended recenly that club and festival stalwart Geoff Higginbottom. Like many of his ilk who tour folk clubs and festivals year after they he is very underrated. New-ish ones you may or may not have heard of are Kate Rusby (not my cup of tea but very popular) and Bellowhead (both popular and to my liking!). The old favourites are still about of course, Steeleye Span are still touring with a line up which, IMHO, is one of the best they have seen. Carthy is still about with various other people.

Just keep on here, froots and the BBC folk page to keep up with world music. WIth the advent of so many internet radio stations playing 24 hours a day I am sure you will find something to your liking:-) Off to browse the webwaves myself now in search of samplings from your list!

I had sort of guessed about Ladysmith btw - I think Paul Simon does that a lot - He had already 'borrowed' as much as he could from English folk before he moved onto Africa. South America was next. Not sure what it is now.

Cheers

DtG