(This is Flick Lawes using Geoff's sign in) I don't make any judgements about 'best folkies', but these are some of the ones I remember. During the mid-sixties I and my singing partner used to go every Monday to the singers night at MSG (Manchester Sports Guild), compered by Frank Duffy, who played banjo and sang traditional songs. I think Frank was also connected with Sunday nights at MSG, but am not sure. MSG was a focus for singers in the area, and Frank did a lot to encourage singers. I have forgtotten a lot of the names of the people singing then, but there was Rose Hardman, singer/songwriter who had a lovely song about Ontario, the Pennine Folk, John(?) Dronsfield ('Drony') who sang a song about being weighed down by change in halfpennies and pennies on a corporation bus, amongst others. One year there was a visiting Dutchman called Joost Pak, who taught me a song I have never tried to sing about a knife grinder in Dutch.