I, and several other Mudcat members (looking at the list of recipients) have recently received a rather disturbing E-mail from Dave Arthur who for many years was the editor of "English Dance & Song", the magazine of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.

I think that the e-mail is rather long and mentions too many names of Society staff and members to post here, although if anyone wishes to post it either in full or preferably in a digest form - please feel free to do so.

Basically Dave (once well known on the folk scene with his ex-wife Toni) appears to have been relieved of his position by the EFDSS in a very shameful manner.

Many years ago I served on the Sales and Publications Committee (as well as the NEC) of the EFDSS and found Dave to be very diligent, artistic and hard-working in this job. In the years since, while not such an active of the society, I have still found ED&S to be an excellent publication.

Are there any other members of the EFDSS, especially from the current "Inner Circle", who would like to comment or give any explanation of what seems to be a rather nasty way of dismissing someone who has worked hard on the Society's behalf for many years ?