Mr. Doyle, I'm not in the UK so I haven't had the pleasure of hearing your family perform, though I did find some YouTube clips. I responded after your post because the sledgehammer-killing-a-fly effect of the all-caps rant looked like it was going to work against you. If you want to let it stand, no problem. If it needs toning-down, a moderator can help with that.

I don't have a dog in this fight, though I have participated in the thoughtful discussions about the Traveller communities over the years. Bleeding heart liberal that I am, I dislike a lot of the public policy that allows discrimination. One of our members, InOBU, has written a great deal and I learned a lot from his posts in addition to other reading on my own. We have Traveller communities in the US, though they are much less conspicuous than in the UK.

You will find that at Mudcat remarks like those made by Mr. Campion don't go unchallenged. I'm not familiar with him personally, so I didn't read more into his dismissal of some performances, though you can see that other mudcat members confronted him about his posts. They just didn't do it in all-caps.

If you would like to join the Mudcat.org group (it's free) then you would be able to use our personal message system and talk with our members both in the forums and privately thorough PMs.

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