You don't read what I post, PG - please check my last few.
Not just "fondly remembered" - as I've said (but you, too, have not read), I do PARTICIPATE in folk clubs and festivals; However, most of your last post is music to my ears, DS.
"Recording the harmonies wasn't as important, as you can come up with them on your own."...but, Volgadon, there's what folks can do and what they choose to do - "traditions exist due to folks being impressed by how their forebears did things" (me). I really like hearing a good folk-singer sing a trad. song unaccompanied - I'm "impressed" by this way, as have been many before me (that's why we still hear it at folk clubs and festivals and radio - Scottish Gaelic radio a lot, English-language a little). Then there's sean-nos.