We had our Folk revival ,it is about time for another.

My own experience of this is different.

In the late fifties and throughout the sixties we had an expansion. I am unhappy with calling it a revival. The Straw Bear Festival or Jack-in-the-Green events at Hastings on May Day are revivals. Singing and playing never died.

Our folk music came to us in different forms - it was was sung spontaneously in families or sometimes in pubs. We changed that to folk clubs. It has now changed again to sessions and festivals. Sheffield, a city of over 500,000 people has loads of sessions and a festival but has difficulty supporting a traditional style folk club booking guests on a regular basis within the city boundaries.

There are dozens of highly talented young musicians and singers around, far more than there ever was when I first started listening in the early sixties.