Well that's good. Now I'm not a mainstream folkie by any measure at all. I've played in pub bands and strutted my stuff at weddings and so on, happy to get free beer in return for playing Irish traditional tunes. I can knock out a decent tune for you any day if you force me to. But the last thing I need to be is a trained musician. The joy of playing traditional music to me was that I was playing with untrained musicians. Hairy arses. We had a highly-trained musician in our band once. Talk about carrying a passenger...