Meanwhile, back at the ranch.

There is, I notice a mudcat thread about T shirts with Folk Against Fascism..

I wonder if Cecil Sharpe would have pulled one down over his shoulders in solidarity with err.. folk?

Folk is a word. Jizz is a word, and today on this thread I saw it for the first time in a birdwatching sense, although I have known the word since my first glance at Color Climax (sic) as a spotty faced adolescent.

You see, I have no problem putting the word "folk" alongside traditional as per 1954 etc etc stuff as well as the other 99% of "folk." Michael, Jim and others want to keep a word exclusive to mean their hobby.

You are too late.

About fifty years by my reckoning...

Peggy Seeger's new album is rather good by the way. Pure folk of course, unless you are of the 1954 Fellowship.

Perhaps the fellowship want to sit cross legged outside Cecil Sharpe House, singing "We shall overcome" until someone points out it was written as a song, rather than evolved from four hundred year old broadsheets. "Oh shit" said Brother Michael, "I hadn't thought this through after all."

Here, I love going to The Cambridge Festival. I like folk you see...