Al:-
Thats why people stopped reading it.
But they didn't, Al. The paid-up subscriptions were at their healthiest ever when the magazine ended. The reasons for the financial loss were complex and due to a number of factors but the four main ones were:-
* The near impossibility of an independent magazine (of any nature) being distributed to shops. This was possible at one time but now the distributors only want to work with the big boys of the magazine industry.
* The collapse of the adverts from World & folk labels. At one time this was the magazine's main source of income. Artists make their own CDs and they sell nearly all of them at the end of gigs.
* The cost of printed a glossy high quality magazine has rocketed in recent years and there is only so much that can be passed on by increased cover charge.
* The rapid decline in all magazine sales as everything moves on to the internet. My daughter is an art editor of two of the BBC magazines and is worried about her future.

Al again....
Froots never engaged me because it talked about the lateest product the 'world music' was trying to foist on us. It had NO interest in the practicalities of thousands (possibly Millions) of us running the folk clubs.
No, Al. World Music is not a 'product', it is a movement very similar to folk clubs except that when I go - as I do - to, for example, WOMAD in Wiltshire and MUSICPORT in Whitby, I love the vitality amongst the young people who decades ago might have gone to folk clubs but who are the sort of people that do not go along with the slightly dodgy view found in many clubs that folk music ends at Dover.
Tell you what Al, why don't you listen to my programme on Rocket FM on Monday at 7pm. The playlist is already up on my thread for these programmes.

I have to go now as Tina and I need to run through the songs that we are going to be singing at a folk club tonight. Incidently, I'm glad that we bought tickets in advance for tonight (Andy Irvine) as they sold out over a fortnight ago.