Sal, that's pretty well covered in my post of 21 Mar 08 - 03:08 p.m. I was told this by a couple of friends who had been to England and had dropped in on some folk clubs. I had also read that Ewan MacColl had either initiated, or at least, favored this policy. But this was some years back, and what Peggy Seeger says on the link in Brian Peters' post at 21 Mar 08 - 01:25 p.m. clears the matter up a lot.

Don Firth