I would like to aded my support for this thread, but to also add that i do not really believe there is a definable kind of music called "Emglish music", and would resist the various attempts to create it as far as I can. There are a lot of kinds of traditional folk music in England, and I think it would be a shame to create a mishmash: you cant mix Billy Pigg and Scan Tester and create something appropriate for the whole coutry). "Music in England" perhaps, would be my preferred term, rather than "English music". Having said that, I shall continue to celebrate it loud and clear, with everyone else here. But it's not better than anyone else's, or worse: it's just more English. And Irish music is more Irish.