I subscribe to Living Tradition, but have to say that production standards on the last edition were pretty poor - many,many typos, textual and grammatical errors, which suggested a lack of decent proof reading. Otherwise it's still my preferred magazine,as it features more of the type of music which I'm personally interested in, although my immediate perception of it is that there's an overly high emphasis on Scottish music. This isn't surprising, perhaps, in view of the land of it's birth. On taking this up with the editor on one occasion he said that he thought the split was about 50/50 between the various types of Celtic and English music. This may, in fact, be correct - on the various occasions I've felt inclined to check that out the split was mostly in that proportion (but not always!)

I used to buy fRoots under it's previous name, but gave up when WHS stopped stocking it locally. The high content of "World" music articles prevents me from taking out a sub, as my interest in the majority of that is only mild (and I can't afford more than one).Previously I used to flit through the content of the copy on the shelves before buying, in order to prevent purchase of an issue which might prove uninteresting,and therefore a costly mistake, to me.

As to fRoots disappearing - where on earth did that one come from??? No sign of that as far as I can see on the last time I ducked into the website (this morning).