"Some people seem to be saying "don't define music" but meaning "don't define the music I like as not being folk".

To be fair Pip I think it's the other way round. These threads almost always start from 1954 definitions and suggest anyone who doesn't stick to them is being a charlatan. The truth is the cat's been so long out of the bag that it only has any life on forums like this. It's like saying steam locomotives are the only ones worthy of the name and forgetting diesel traction has been consigned to history too and the general public are riding on multiple units made in the Czech republic.

This is against a background of fine diferentiations between what 'English Traditional Music' means, if anything.