I used to live just around the corner from the little bar that was once owned by Hamish Imlach, in Bielefeld( about 5 years ago ). Some of the local German musicians who used to gather in there for an Irish session,were pretty damned good, I can tell you !!---no sense of humour,of course, and they never smiled,or seemed to be enjoying themselves, but they were TOP CLASS musicians,nevertheless. I also enjoyed listening to Brian McNeil talking to the audience ,in a Bielefeld folk-club, in fluent German, but I think that was because his mother is either Austrian or Swiss ???