"All music is fake. It is an abstract, which is why the absurd pigeon holing by those with limited thought on these threads is both sad and funny at the same time."
Exactly, However it is these attitudes that have driven many fine performers of all genres of folk music to despair.
The problem is not the musicians,but those people who get themselves into a position of power and then try and start dictating how it should be done stylistically and who is going to get the gigs, these people with their narrow attitudes have attempted to ruin many peoples livelihoods.