>That, I suspect, would be the rationale behind the "English" session; it gives some room for material which is often marginalised in other contexts, identifies it for what it is, and prevents it from being swamped by the sometimes over-familiar "Session Standards": this may seem separatist, but I think that it serves a useful function, in the short term, as a form of positive discrimination.>

An excellent point, which decribes our situation quite well, if our music was as well known as the 'other' stuff, there would be no need to be quite so extreme and apparently elitist about it; after all, it is possible to love your country's national music without being unpleasantly nationalistic. Should we ever reach the point where our music is a real part of our lives as it is mine, there will then be no need to fly the flag quite so much.