OK - I could send Bee a PM but might as as well apologise in public for starting the "daft question" sub-thread.
Bee, I think you you were led down the garden path by all the argument that traditional folk music all happened in pubs, combined with the fact that your own culture used to see pubs (whatever they are in Nova Scotia) as exclusively men-only. And of course I had no idea where you were coming from, but accept that in the circumstances it was a reasonable question.

There was a thread about "the role of women in folk music" on mudcat a few years ago and your question reminded me of that - on that occasion it seemed to be trying to raise an issue where there was none.

Anahata