Spot the difference.

I never said anything about proportions, Sycophant - but even so I think Ron's 60% is a tad on the generous side - especially given his various caveats which many here, myself included, might disagree with. All of which is besides the point because a significant proportion of what is sung in any folk club is in no way shape or form traditional and yet it is still called folk. This is why I thought it was maybe time for a pragmatic reconsideration of what we mean when we say folk in the light - or otherwise - of Maud Karpeles' definition of 1954 which, to the Orthodox, is talking about a music which is dead, however so often revived.