I rather like the use of "our music". Once when I sang a traditional song at a club, someone who's more into modern, recently composed songs asked me "Whose song is that?" - expecting me to name a recording artist or a composer. But I said something like, "It's no one's - or everyone's. It's yours, mine, ours." - which seemed to be a new concept to him.

Modern commercial music is often closely linked with one person (often the performer rather than the composer). I like the way that in traditional music, most of us (and that includes all of you if you like, okay?) feel that we have a right to make a song our own and interpret it as we wish. So rather than saying, "This is a Martin Carthy/Kate Rusby song," we will focus on the song rather than on a particular singer or arrangement. (Although of course if the song is not traditional but was written by Kate Rusby, it's courteous to say so.) We make the music "ours" in a way that doesn't often happen in most other genre of music.

Marje