I have often felt that a daily Mailish right wing lurks within the folk community and I have posted before that I feel song is left and dance is right, but only as a rough generalisation with much crossover.

I think their is a genuine problem of trying to work with traditional music from other ethnic experiences. This is not an argument against but a recognition that it is not easy to make it work. I love E2, Whapweasel, Imagined Village, Afro-Celts and Paddyrasta.

One issue about Singer-songwrites is that many cease to have any real connection with traditional songs and when they use the word folk for what they do it makes the word meaningless.