We go to a great session where everyone is made welcome and everyone is listened to and encouraged - no matter what their level of expertise. The whole idea is for likeminded people to get together, enjoy the company and make music.Surely that's what folk music is about.If you listen to recordings of traditional singers "collected" in the 60s, you will find ordinary people with a range of voices and ability keeping the songs alive.No-one edited them out because they were out of tune. Much would have been lost if they had.It breaks my heart that people can be so dismissive and intolerant of each other's choice of or ability.We are surely talking about "The music of the people"when we talk about "folk".