Good for you, IanC. I for one, am sick of hearing about Celtic this and Celtic that. The Celts have been dead a long, long time.

I have been active in traditional music since 1982. We brought Irish and Scottish bands to town for years before we ever heard the term "Celtic music." I think that term came into use because Nashville and the media needed a term for the music that River Dance was using, and they didn't want to be honest and call it "authentic country music."

Anyhow, one day we put a ruler on the map of Europe and concluded that the distance from Turkey to Ireland is only about 700 miles. How do you suppose all these supposedly different races and cultures managed to remain so distinct across this short distance, given the wars, displacements and migrations of the centuries?