Diane, I am not picking a fight with anyone. I was at the Ballads and Blues Club from 1957 or 58 virtually every Saturday evening until it closed in May of 1965. I knew Peggy but not particularly well from when she first arrived here and I also took guitar lessons from her until her short stay visa ran out. I do not just "claim to have been there". I have no quarrel with the stand that Ewan or Ewan and Peggy made, we all have our own preferences for the way we prefer to hear the music. They departed from the Ballads and Blues Club which was run by Malcolm Nixon and Pete Turner and set up the Singers Club so there was no problem as they could and did set up there own policy. I last met Peggy about seven years ago when we had a pleasant time reminiscing about those days.

Re the definition of folk music and folk singers, there is an oft quoted phrase credited at various times to Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong and Big Bill Broonzy to mention just three "it's all folk music, I ain't never heard a horse sing"

The music belongs to everyone and the good stuff lasts, the crap just falls by the wayside.

Hoot