Dick, you get around the folk clubs in the UK. Do you see any evidence of performers getting up with a folder and singing from it? If you do how often? What about you, Brian and NickD?

At our regular concerts a few years ago we gave a young group of chanty singers a spot. I was a bit uncertain when they started using a tablet of some sort as a prompt. However they went down very well and seemed committed so we asked them back a few months later. This time no prompt and much improved. The last 2 or 3 concerts they have gone down a storm.

What if I had taken that first performance as their measure and not asked them back? Who would have been the poorer?