Jim Carroll

>>Apart from the confusion which appears to reign on the British club scene, many of the problems are obviously down to the fact that many of the clubs have fallen into the hands of people who neither like nor understand folk song.
>>Youngsters are coming to folk music here in Ireland in enough numbers to guarantee it will still be played by the next two generations. It hasn't happened to the same extent yet with singing...

I always thought that you had put across the view countless times that folk clubs had been destroyed by their moving away from traditional SONG. You now appear to be saying that the future of folk music is secured for the coming generations (in Ireland at least) by the MUSIC not by song and that seems a fundamental shift in position.

Perhaps you've been nobbled.