There seem to be a lot of young people who think folk is 'sad'. I'm writing part of a project about this at the moment and have come up with reasons such as misconceptions ("It's only for old people"), under-exposure ("It's just morris dancing, isn't it?") and lack of access ("Don't know where to play/hear it...") Does anyone agree/disagree with these things, or have any other ideas?

On a similar note, someone sent me part of a thread from another forum (they didn't say which - it may have been this one for all I know. I'm new.) where someone had described "young folkies" as something along the lines of "a nasty breed of late teen who were pushed into it by their parents and will rebel against it later".

I wasn't sure whether this was the opinion of the masses, or quite what!