SORRY everyone, I was too busy bitching to notice the Staff line-up.
With such talent on the staff as Karen (Twelve Fingers) Tweed and Sandra Kerr I have to declare MY opinion unequivocally that: this particular course will benefit Folk.
Excuse my personal favouritisms there, and no I haven't heard of them all. But wasn't it Sandra Kerr, siren of subtle subversion, who forced me to write a very worthwhile song instead of wearing my writers block like a gong....... in 15 minutes? Without any direct influence. OK I cheated a little - called it "the War Memorial" subtitled "the Old Barbed Why Here?" (sound familiar?) - but I am proud of it and Sandra's inspiration.
This was at that the well known University of "Folk Festival" on the course referred to as: songwriters workshop.
I would be at UNuC (sic) if it wasn't for the money, stamina, talent, geography, and a little bit of musicionship to start with.

It is a moot point but wasn't the humble graphaphone recording apparatus a staticiser, a fixer, constrainer, (pedants at the ready) singular datum, and one true pivot?
No?
YES YES YES. Only with tape machines and now CD burners can folk (& Folk) claim back the plasticity of evolution. Oral tradition, is alive again.
Digital tradition? or finger in the ear? **HoHoHO**