To the poster above: I'm not quite sure what your post is trying to say or achieve. Are you suggesting that the people who are currently making money and getting recognised gigs on the folk scene haven't put in a "lifetime of artistic endeavour or flogging hopelessly around the low paid gigs of England"?

This may not be what you're trying to say at all, but for some reason I couldn't make much sense of it- can you clear it up for me please?