I'm young (13, apparently, but I try and deny all knowledge of the fact and pretend to be 16 instead). And I'm folkie! OK - not for as long as so other 13-yr-olds, (they were given 1/32 size fiddles at the age of 2 so I have an excuse), but I'm very musically active. I can appreciate any music that's thrown at me, because that's what I've been taught to do. I won't guarantee I'll like it, but I can tell good musicianship. I think that there's a problem with appreciation among my generation - I get laughed at for listening to a wide variety of music from folk, through folk jazz into blues. Why can't they understand that the work of a genius doesn't always need to incorporate synthesisers? I'll stop ranting now - this post is so negative! Sorry.

Ruthie