I don't know how I wandered into this thread.....

While I hate the concept of throwing things together into "I am not taking the time to find out what this is and name it properly" but I certainly understand it: I do it at home all the time.

But FINALLY, a definition of 'folk' that I can love:

"..i have a lifelong love of natural organicly evolving bastardised mongrel
immigration inspired music
grown from a process
of clumsy collisions and uncontrived exchanges
between diverse older previously geographicaly isolated musical cultures.."

Amen

Dani