Should I be reduced to my own folks' folk music I'd be very unhappy. Northern German Folklore was nearly extinguished by that devastating "Bajuwarian beer tent volksmusik" style. What they do here nowadays is either old dances and their tunes preserved and shown in tradition societies or some "volksmusik" crap blended with some coastal elements like seagulls in the stage decoration. But our own rich song and dance culture sung is dead.

So thank god for the hamburg irish pubs and the fun we're having there.