Just a thought which has been hovering in the back of my brain as I read this thread - it's odd at the same time to moan that PRS is guilty of giving too much money to the big names AND say that somehow folk music events shouldn't be paying anything. If all folk musicians and all folk events were exempted from involvement with PRS, one major result would be that whatever earnings are currently accruing to folk PRS members would stop. I'm really not sure why we would want that to happen.

Anne