Well Matt and guest, what's stopping you getting out there playing and singing folk music? Do you only do it for money? There's a word for that too.

Opera has to be subsidised if it is to survive (not that I'd be all that bothered if it didn't) because of the expense of staging it. Now how's that again about folk music?

Just what do you want central funding to preserve? Concerts? 'Nuff said.