The Song Carriers are alive and well and live Manchester. This collection of people and they may choose to correct me, have been singing songs in and around Manchester since the '50s. I believe one M. Humphries was associated, although not from the '50s.

I am not suggesting that they are "Source Singers", although some maybe, and that's the problem.

Isn't it true that the singers that Sharp et al collected from often had a wide collection of songs? Some old, some Music Hall, some hymns, some popular? Sharp picked the ones he wanted and passed them, eventually to us.

What wold a data base of Source Singers look like today? I know it sounds a bit fascist and I am not suggesting it, but it might give us some idea of what that aspect of the living tradition actually looks like.