Not dying, just changing - and for the better, in my opinion - at the hands of a wide range of great new performers, both professional and amateur, who are adapting the traditional stuff and writing great new folk songs, often melding and combining with other forms of music. The folk scene is even more exciting that it was when I first got into it 45 years ago and light years ahead of the dull, dreary 70s and 80s.

All you have to do is open you ears - and you mind.