Do you have a term for the people who taught songs to the source singers, who taught songs to the folk singers, Janice?

Those are the guys we don't have a unique name for over here.

Some call em folk singers, some call em traditional singers, but as both these names can also be taken to refer to quite different (modern) singers, it's getting everyone in a muddle, and making people like my new chum Richard quite cross with one of our better newspapers!