"So what's stopping you?"

Two reasons. Firstly, I have a 12-year old who loves folk music, has been brought up with it and and has been with us to every festival we've attended since she was born. To farm her out to someone else while we go would be incredibly disappointing to her. Also grossly unfair.

Secondly, there's no way I'm going to give money to an organisation that supports discrimination so that can make a fsat buck. I've spent years of my life fighting against age discrimination and I'm not prepared to compromise my principles. Let me ask you this. Would you support a festival that excluded disabled people on the grounds that they needed special facilities or might offend people? What about a festival that excluded women? After all, they want hairdressers, nail salons and shoe shops, don't they - and their own toilets where they can leave the seat down? And what do they know about folk music - many of the songs were composed before they even had the vote?

You get my drift? Discrimination is discrimination, no matter what gloss you care to put on it.