I think that they're probably worried that 'their' folk music will be swallowed up by the obvious success of my kind of folk music. I read on here that apparently, Billy Bragg can't sing. Neither can 95% of singers that I've heard in singarounds up and down the country over the last 40 years (and when I say 95%, I'm being generous). The fact that 95% of them can't sing doesn't detract from the fact that their audience loves it. This is most peoples idea of folk music. It's (invariably) my idea of hell!