Well the Dubliners for one are! Hope that this creates a precedent for preserving the old values being recognised!

Saw Scottish Young Musician Traditional awards on telly yesterday and I do hope that having Julie Fowlis with Mike Harding will forge better English Traditional values.

Instrumental musicianship using fiddles, melodeons, whistles, mandolins etc is unbelievable

Songs though and singers other than the trail blazing June Tabor and Nick Jones (back in business after many years god bless him!)

Singers, songs and feelings "hewn from life" [MH quote]

Ray