how has your folk-music learning-curve been? Did you learn most of what you now know in your first enthusiastic year or two? Has it levelled-off at all? Has it gone all pear-shaped?!

Speaking for myself, WAV - I've been an active participant in Folk & Traditional Song now since I was fourteen in 1976, and I'm still learning the ropes, and still making new and momentous discoveries. That said, I suppose by 1980 I might have thought I knew it all too, but I was only 18, four years a folk singer (amongst other things!), but 28 years down the line, aged 46 (which is still young for the baby-boomer folk scene!) I'm still getting to grips with it, and still enjoying the process of being a folk-singer which is an end in itself. It never levels off, let alone go pear-shaped, because no matter where you're at, you can always be better.