Perhaps you should ask Frankie rather than condemming first. When Martin Carthy received his MBE (I believe it was that, or OBE? feel free to correct me) he said he wrestled with the decision. Should he take it as an honor purely, should he say hell no and not take praise from the monarchy? I believe in the end what he said was, he was accepting it for all the people before him-the Sam Larner's, and Fred Jordan's, etc. I agree with the above post that he might have just done it to say he played for a President, and if you do that michaelr, you might find that you need to condemn an inordinate number of performers, folk and non folk alike who have played for a President, or a Prime Minister, or what have you. I'm sure Frankie had his own reasons for doing it, so you have no right to condemn him unless you know that reason.