Sweet Geeze, 'tis morning now and transatlantic muddle hangs in the air.
It can only be assumed that Melissa was getting well stuck ino a large bottle last night.
Here goes in words of as few syallables as possible:

Jeri's post of 0633 seems to suppose that the funding and administrative measures I advocate for English tradarts are not needed in the US.
I say that they certainly are.
Though I would have imagined that someone who claims, unlike by far the majority of US citizens who despise and/or ignore local and/or immigrant music and musicians, rather to be aware of them would have noticed this already.