I'm with Mikefule and Satchel. Their musical opinions coincide with mine, that 'folk music' is an untenable category. I've been in clubs that had folk in one room, rock groups in another, and had the thought that theirs was live folk music, ours was dead folk music. Here we go again, 'what is folk music.' I have given it some thought. I used to know, but the older I get..... My personal songbook contains over 200 Trad English songs, all of which I've sung, but I'm not so bigoted these days, and the songbook is almost a document of my changing taste and opinion.
Please note "their musical opinions..." No social opinions implied on my part.