As many know- the BBC has cut the wondrous programme Folkways.
The reason cited- minority interest programming must be cut.

This supports my long held point of view that the folk music community needs to be less narrowly defined, more politically divers, more tolerant of non professionals and more accessible to all income levels-lower prices at venues, smaller audiences, less pro more every day. Less performance only more a way of life.

the cutting of folkwaves for the reason cited underscores the danger in the common view that folk music "is not for everyone" and that it can manage as a small select group which is not politically diverse and that professionalization and rising costs of venues do not matter.

When the community remains minority it can not be sustained.

Conrad