First time I ever heard John Dowland was at Heritage Society in Oxford many many years ago, when Richard Mabey used to play some of his tunes, in between everyone else's sea shanties and the post-skiffle, and Cecil Sharpe stuff. Very well received.

I'd like to see Dowland have the same acceptance and recognition in the English folk scene as Carolan has in the Irish. (In fact Dowland was very likely from an Irish family, with the name being a version of Doolin, but he seems to have been born in London.)