One more observation: there have been a lot of great young artists come along in the last few years but the audience doesn't seem to have changed. So at something like a Kate Rusby or Kathryn Roberts gig you have a young woman in her twenties playing to an audience largely comprised of men in their fifties. You couldn't really blame any newcomer to the folk scene having mixed feelings about that sort of spectacle. We know it's not wierd (of course) but...