Oh dear ellender - you're part of the problem not the solution. Nobody knows where the party is to be held, or even if there is enough support for it to be held .

But already you're drawing up a list of the people who aren't invited. None of those nasty singer songwriters.

Its precisely this sort of bias, and exclusivity that has made Folkwaves such an easy easy target.

thers guys who have been running folk evenings over twenty years (giving young folksingers a start) not a stones throw away from Derby and they don't fit the definition of folk so they don't get a mention - lots of other sins of ommission.

Try including people. Look on folkmusic as an artistic movement - like painting. they don't exclude people from art classes because they're not surrealists.