"...is never paid. Paid singers are professional. Even if they don't earn their living that way."

I'd like to see that opinion presented to Martin Carthy, Stan Hugill, Alex Campbell, or Ewan McColl. The responses would, at the very least, be entertaining.

Kitty, not a folksinger, but a singer of folk songs? That kind of nitpicking, mean spirited, comment says much more about the critic than about you.

Having heard you sing, I just don't care what anyone else chooses to call it. You are a better singer than he will ever be a critic.

Don T.