Accurate reading would help.

Get my name right.

Bother to distinguish between what I said I saw (or heard) and what I said I was told.

It has already been said above that you closed early to avoid trouble: but you stoked that trouble for yourself by the very marketing strategy that you claim "delivers" (I did read your article in "the Publican").

I did not find any folk song in the Mechanics Arms. I was told by locals that there was none in the Phoenix. I did not find any in the Three Tuns. I did not find any in the Elephant (I had been going to do some but the day was so dispiriting neither I nor any others (as far as I know) went. If you can establish otherwise, please do.

The upshot is that far from the inclusiveness suggested by the words "no group can lay legitimate claim to all of it" in fact no singer or player of folk song is properly accommodated save for the limited class of players of Irish tunes. The group close to establishing claim to the turf is lager yoof.