Oh fnard, Whittle again also on the 25th "However Froots has bit the dust mainly because of its dogged unshakeable belief that we had nothing much to offer compared to the Zulu's, Mexicans, Norwegians etc." There are two main things to be said about that. First if was "Froots" not "Anglicana" AND THEREFORE BY DEFINITION MULTICULTURAL.

Secondly the Froots approach reflects the underlying truth of the Karpeles definition - namely that the concept of "folk" music had to be applicable without distortion across cultures. There are other minor issues about the Kaarpeles definition but we can (alas, and again) debate those later or elsewhere.