Perhaps because he's famous ... okay, not famous like Martin Carthy or Maddy Prior (who are both patrons of other festivals) but it's perhaps a refreshing change to have one of the younger performers as a festival patron. And a performer who is willing to take risks (just like Maddy and Martin in their younger - and not so younger - days).

After all, as the Warwick festival website says:
"Jim Moray is one of the most consistently inventive musicians working in traditional folk music today.
His 4th album Skulk was released last week ...and is already getting rave reviews.
Skulk follows Jim's ground-breaking and award-winning albums – 2003's BBC Radio2 Folk Album of Year 'Sweet England', 'Jim Moray' in 2006 and fRoots Critics Poll & Mojo Folk Album of the Year winner 'Low Culture' in 2008. Jim Moray is at the forefront of a new folk revival in the UK, and hailed as a pivotal influence by a new generation of folk musicians while still only being in his 20s himself."

Derek
who has no connections with Warwick FF - I've never even been.