re earlier comment-
                      While playing music on the Cape Clear Island quayside, unamplified & for our own pleasure with a couple of others on Cape Clear, we were engaged in conversation by a 'session' pub owner (shanley's) from Clonakilty.
He said
'There are musicians who play traditional music, and there are traditional musicians and you boys are the latter'

We three (one Dubliner, one from Hampshire and me, a Geordie') were very flattered, of xcourse.
Now all three of us had been involved in the music for many years, and none of us would regard ourselves as 'traditional musicians' but I know what he meant, and it's an important distinction.