Yes. FolkWISE is more of an enabling organisation than an on-going managing company, so once the station was running smoothly we felt the right thing to do would be to hand the project over to Phil Snell, who I'd brought in to do the programming at the start, and who's done most of the hard graft ever since. (He's produced three of my albums too - a talented chap).

Both we and Phil agreed that a name change would be a good idea, to help signal the new ownership. The Music Well was the name of a similar project that Phil had been working on before we started RBF (and one of the reasons I knew he'd be the right guy for the job).

It's been Phil's decision to switch to a donation system - something that a lot of sites are doing now. There is so much music available for free on the internet that the philosophy is increasingly to open the doors wide and hope people will then say thank you with a little dosh. (The main pages of RBF were always free to use, of course).

FolkWISE is still committed to helping The Music Well, and quite a few board members are still actively involved.

We did issue a press release etc. but this was essentially business as usual, so we didn't make a huge fuss. All the main features are still there - specially the archive which is a really valuable asset, and Phil still needs support; listeners, listings providers, programme makers, reviewers, billboarders, album sellers etc.

Tom