Dick, I think your point would have validity if it were the ONLY event that represented FAF that week. As it happens, there were lots. The whole point of FAF is that it is not a top-down organisation - anyone who belongs to FAF can create their own events which, to them, contribute to what FAF stands for. FAF itself has only organised two of the dozens of FAF-branded events that have taken place over that past year. In the case of Nowt So Queer, a gay folk artist collaborated with EFDSS to put together an event from his own perspective, which is what FAF was all about.

If we take as our starting point that the BNP are Nazis in suits (and I do) then concerts organised to celebrate sectors of UK society (and members of our own folk community) who would be persecuted should the FarRight ever gain power is absolutely within the FAF remit. The day before, as part of the FAF Village Fete, there was a concert celebrating folk artists from outside of the usual White British folk constituency - gypsies, Africans, Asians, Muslims...you get the picture. That concert also had a very specific message and agenda.

So to sum up, don't see Nowt So Queer as somehow exclusive because it was a very narrow event with which to deliver the FAF message; see it as one of dozens of events within FAF week which ALL celebrated the openness and inclusiveness of the UK folk scene, albeit in different ways.