Your prerogative. Hopefully other forum users might be interested to further engage with the question of what can make for a welcoming culture within our folk community.

At the EFDSS folk educators day, the renewed risk to the loss of folk dance as a living tradition across much of the country seemed very apparent.

Folk music clubs and singarounds on the whole seem in better health, from my experience, but that's no reason to be complacent - especially given the likely profound impact on our venue infrastructure; and also, the fact that without a vaccine, singing itself is seen to be an activity that can project the virus over a wider area.