Paul Davenport:

Pop? Are you deaf?

I've really not heard many unaccompanied pop songs. I would agree that a couple of the artists mentioned are fairly contemporary and write their own material (Anna Shannon, Brother Crow- still a long way from pop though!). The others (Young'uns, Wendy Arrowsmith) are mainly pretty traditionally styled doing a lot of (and in one case exclusively, Ian McKone) traditional songs.

Quite accept you may not like them but your description shows a complete lack of critical listening ability on your part.

BTW alot of the artists at Whitby aren't exclusively trad/ trad styled either.

BTW (Again) Trad is not always boring....... depends how it is done and who is doing it.