Surreysinger - I've been quite frank about the fact that, thus far, I've only done mini free-drinks/entry type gigs/spots, as an amateur; so why are you trying to say I've suggested otherwise?
"Aryan superiority" (Diane)...I hate imperialism - be it Nazi, Victorian, or any other, and wish Aboriginal, and other, land rights would be covered in schools here.
"the idea that one should only sing songs of one's own limited locality" (Don)...several earlier folk clubs in England DID have a perform-your-own-national-culture policy.
Dave - if you attend folk festival comps and/or read the rules, you'll see that judges don't have to award places, and that the average number of participants is a few more than you say; also, at Morpeth, e.g., the last 2 or 3 years the hall HAS been pleasingly packed. This is a case of someone being so keen to get at me that they end up knocking things and people they would normally respect and support.
Eliza, Volgadon, Possums - can you accept that my title "Instruments of (or closely associated with) England" doesn't say that these instruments are not associated with any other nation?

Poem 76 of 230: LAND RIGHTS

If there is a good thing
    From the Second World War
It's that most peoples learnt
    To conquer lands no more.

In Africa, Asia,
    And the Pacific, too:
Post-war independence -
    Steps only bigots rue.

But for some indigenes,
    Outnumbered much-too-much,
It has all come too late
    For liberty, as such.

So 'tis in Australia,
    And America's sites,
Where the best now, I think,
    Is to respect land rights.

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