"Surely this is an opinion rather than a factual statement? "
Based on the present state of things, it seems common sense to me

"It would appear that 'Full English' considers song-makers as part of its ambit."
Couldn't argue with that if what they chose to represent folk music in any way resembled it
Ewan chose to create using traditional forms - he wasn't a singer-songwriter (in the way that term is now used) - he was a singer of traditional songs who used the songs he sand to crate new ones
I can in no way see how the EFDSS choice comes anywhere near that with the breathy 'little girl' voices and pseudo Mid-Atlantic accents that have taken over many of our folk clubs
Whether you like them or not (immaterial) they no way meet what EFDSS should be about
I know The Library has a reasonable collection of source singers and could lay their hands on may more with very little effort
Malcolm and I worked our way through The Hamer Collection to produce a Library cassette (now unavailable) and only had room for a few of them
As far as song-making is concerned, if they can't gain permission to use some of the good songmakers creating in traditional styles, they may as well leap onto their camels and ride off into the desert
Peggy had no problems at all when she produced her 20 volumes of New City Songster
Jim Carroll