Johnny does indeed live in Norway now, and has done for a few years, and I believe he's 67 now, but age does not wither him one whit, and he's still a top class act.
Many years ago there was a black guy called Hope Howard, who used to turn up at the Hammersmith Folk centre, in the days when Rod Hamilton used to run it. I believe he went to live and work in the midlands, Nottingham or thereabouts.
Apart from Idris our own Mudcat Morris dancer, I'm afraid we don't se enough black faces in the clubs.
I think there's a lot of truth in the statement about their being more urban in their choice of dwelling place. I live in a small village, and there is there is one black lady in the village, and her 2 kids, and those are the only non white faces for miles around.