Supply and demand.

If they ain't demanding you as a folksinger, don't screw your life up - do something else. Have a look round, there are plenty of openings for performers and musicians. You've see the mindset of some of these people on mudcat. For most of them its just an neurotic excuse not to regard themselves as normal human beings, who sing and fart in the bath.(Oh no, not that finger in that orifice - real folksingers don't do that!)

sod 'em. do something else. the tradition will survive, DESPITE their opinionated bollocks.