I'd like to add my thanks to Steve's re the interesting contributions made over the last few days before and after Mudcat imploded due, presumably, to the explosion of positivity and mutual respect ;-) I particularly love Vic's quotation from Sandra Kerr.

I'm recently back from a Kitty MacFarlane concert. New songs, rooted in her home of Somerset but using found sounds and sampling to enhance the presentation. I thought some material tipped over to the pretentious but, hey, she is young and clearly has a strong folk sensibility