well said - LH.

So many people despise the original way of singing folksongs in the way that they first heard them, themselves. Theres altogether too much music for musicians.

You don't need to be able to play the guitar like Bert Jansch or Martin Carthy to sing folksongs and inspire others (no disrespect to Matin or the memory of Bert intended). There was a time when we had wonderful minstrels in the folk clubs like Noel Murphy.

People seem to think that because a song can be played with two or three chords or even unaccompanied, that there is no skill involved in the performance of it. Just the brass balls to stand up and do it. In fact having the bottle to get up, is just the start of when you should start learning the skills of minstrelsy, projection and performance.