Thanks for all those positive comments about the singarounds - we try to please - but it's really about the people that come to them and what they contribute to them. Lots of good songs and singing, music, poems, jokes - and good listening too! Sorry we're a bit too respectable for you, Richard, but perhaps what that means is respect for those who are performing - I'm not sure.

Dead Horse made a comment a while back about deserting the singarounds for cajun music. Well, you could always get the cajun music to the singarounds - we'd love it!

But that did make me think - there aren't many 'folk' festivals where you can hear cajun, blues, gipsy swing, country, etc., all in the main mix, as it were - and they *are* all part of the folk heritage. So while we may all find styles of music that we don't much like, or even approve of being included in a 'folk' festival, I think we're lucky in getting to hear some very classy stuff that we wouldn't perhaps hear elsewhere.

Also, perhaps because Kim doesn't have all the baggage that goes with being a dyed-in-the-wool folkie, she tends to respond to listening to stuff that people send her, and booking what appeals, whether or not they are young, old, 'names' or not - that way, I've heard some people that were very new to me, some of whom I could have done without, but others that I've really enjoyed and wanted to hear more of. Thank goodness for her range of taste!

Barbara