"Depends if you want your music (whatever music) to survive - if you don't, no, it doesn't matter - who gives a toss about badly performed music?
Jim Carroll"

C Sharp travelled around the country, as did a number of others over the years, with the intention of recording the folk songs of our ancestors, as passed down through the centuries.

I have heard many song recordings of country people who, in the main, were far from being polished professional performers.

I think that devotees of traditional folk music (among whom I DO number myself, in spite of also writing songs) should be grateful that some of today's enthusiasts were not around to discourage poor performers from singing.

Had they been around there would IMO be a much smaller, not to say weaker, tradition.

Don T.