I know by saying this I will be completely missing the point, but here goes. Can’t we rid the Transatlantic Sessions of the Brits and Irish next time?  A controversial view I know, but if you’re going to the trouble and expense of flying over top US folk and country stars like the golden-voiced Alison Moorer, dobro-God Jerry Douglas, Appalachian banjo / Cajun accordian dude & friend to Jack White – Mr Dirk Powell, and the wonderful Grammy-winner, gospel-singer Ashley Cleveland, why dilute their rare appearances by allowing them only to perform three songs? It’s not that ‘Team Celt’ suck or anything. Its just that ‘Team America’ are a much scarecer commodity – and I want to hear them MORE.

As much as I might adore Julie Fowlis’s odd ancient Hebridian sing-a-long (adore might be over-stating it somewhat), doesn’t she play in London, like, all the time? Yes, yes, I know its all supposed to be about the unique collaborations, joining up the cultures that were once one and the same, blah, blah. But here’s the thing. I’d have paid my £25 five nights in a row for some yankee solo shows. They might even have been paid five times more.