When you read the 2 threads that are running in the same vain, it realy shows up how people involved in folk music have difficulty in keeping to a narrow path. That I think is the essence of what we all enjoy, there are so many areas in the tradition that they are bound to overlap, bound to ignore each other and have jelousies about their own individual prefrences.I always woory that in fighting will eventualy kill the tradition,therfore my view is enjoy it all while we can.In a session at WFW in the Plough a group of musicians played and sang any one was invited and encouraged to join in a gentleman a little worse for wear sang Wild Rover to the tune Ghost Riders in the Sky somthing I have never heard before.No elitism just enjoyment surely thats what folk music is all about. Keith