I respect your views Dan, but how are the other professional touring artists, the ones who never get a look in, supposed to feel?

I'm talking about those who are ignored year after year after year even though they are on the road four or five days a week, though they headline festivals and get bums on seats, though they make wonderful albums (which MH never plays), and work hard to be advocates for Harry Cox and Baring-Gould in clubs, schools, pubs and other places.

I won't name names, but I can think of dozens of top quality full-time life-long pros, who are not even on the 'suggested' list - even though they've had albums out this year which have been played frequently on BBC local radio stations and had glowing reviews in the National and local folk press - and some even write regular articles in the folk press too.

Why are these people excluded?