Thank you Joe, and thank you Susan, for your informative and helpful posts.

I shall post the thread up later and PM Joe as per instructions.

Thanks to Kevin as well for explaining so succinctly what I was trying to get across, namely that you can't always find what you are looking for on YouTube just by searching on the tag you think will give you a hit.

Just to take one more example, try inputting "Tony McManus" in the search box. You will come up with two videos, one of Tony playing "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" (my absolutely unfavourite track of his ), and one other of an amateur guitar player having a valiant stab at one of the tunes of the "Ceol More" album.

If you input "celtic guitar", however, lo and behold the first hit you get is Tony McManus playing a neat flatpicked reel, plus there are links to other videos featuring him.

As Kevin says, it's all down to how the uploader decides to tag the video.

But it's not only about that, it's about discovering excellent performances that other people might enjoy, which they would not normally search for.

I would not normally search out videos featuring the tin whistle, for example, but I have seen Cathal MacConnell play and I know what can be achieved on the instrument. If somebody comes across an amazing video of a tin whistle player, I would be only delighted to click on the link. Same goes for accordion, banjo, bagpipes, whatever.

Cross-fertilization, that's what it is going to be all about.

My only concern is that the recent Google acquisition of YouTube could lead to a spate of copyright lawsuits which would never have been pursued prior to the buy-out, but that is a bridge which can be crossed at the appropriate time.

Let's enjoy what we have, while we have it.

And Big Mick, I want plenty of recommendations from you !!