Its not nice to exclude people from the total vision of what is folkmusic in their own country. Particularly people who have dedicated their lives to the propostion of being a folk musician.

You may fail to see the attractions of Annie's Song; you may fail to see that someone may play that song as a starting place on the way to expressing themselves.

There are a myriad points at which to choose to start failing with the rest of humanity. Its a pain inthe balls though when you keep insisting that your failure to empathise with the largest part of the population, is some measure of your artistic vision.

You are excluding people to feel important and different from the plebs - that simple. a lot of the music and musicians you pretend is enjoyable is monstrously and confrontationally bad. And you get a kick out of the situation.