We can have both! Award ceremonies for people like me who are glad that folk music attracts a bit of airtime and glad that someone thinks it worthwhile to celebrate the music on primetime radio. Workshops for people who can sing and play and want to improve. Like the ones the Snail's lot organise, for instance.

More generally, sometimes I think 'folkies' just like to have something to complain about. They think its part of the job description.

(And at the risk of repeating myself, isn't Jackie Oates fab? Isn't her version of 'Lark in the Morning' a corker and a deserving winner? Who'd be mean enough to begrudge it her and why on earth want to? And dontcha just love that shruti box?)