Thankou GUEST Jon Dudley, your comments are very poignant and meaningful.

After all; come on folks, we can't all be well-polished, super rehearsed, professional folk singers with a huge ability to memorise hundreds of songs.

The people in such a category are at the very peak of the iceberg, so what about all the rest?
The important thing here is that we are all bonded together by the same thing - our undying love of folk songs, folk people and the whole folk scene in general - whether that is in the U.K or U.S or anywhere else on the planet.