"You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family"

I think any "community" that shares a common "love" would feel the same Hazel. I have very few family members left and regard the folk world as my substitute family with its squabbles, "black sheep" and all! :)

One magic moment was, when visiting catter Beer at his home in Canada recently, a younger member of his family who were visiting for the Ormstown Festival turned to me and asked "How are we related?"