How can a band be nominated for major British folk awards, make albums that sell in great numbers and attract sell out audiences up and down the country, if the band are adequate at best?

It worries me...

Perhaps tastes have changed or perhaps it is marketing.

Personally, if I was say this time going back to a time when I was involved in some way with a folk club that booked artists and had floor spots, I can't have imagined the club wanting to pay "star rates" for them.

Floor wise, I could imagine an unknown Sandy Denny startling an audience but I can't imagine the Unthank sisters achieving that.

(Never had any that I might think are famous names in this situation but the best I can spring to mind on an odd night I MC'd and called from the floor, I'm pretty sure was the Joe Kerins there has been a recent memorial thread on here)