Indeed Greg - I doubt if the group of experts exists (as Smooth Ops seem to want us to think) along with you. I figured if we kept banging on about them (accepting the disingenuousness of Smooth Ops) we might, just might get the truth that way. Maybe it came across as naivety to you, I assure you it isn't!!!!

I'd find it extremely hard to name 150 "experts" who I didn't personally know at least some. I know one who was on the Young Person's Award a couple of years ago (Alistair Anderson) and I think Ian Anderson is on the main one. Maybe you have to be called Anderson - that'll restrict it even more!!

But (for example) I believe Derek Schofield (Editor of English Dance and Song) is not a member. A strange omission to me given the criteria they set, people who make judgements about folk music each day!