Sorry Ron - of course you Yanks are allowed an opinion. Just don't get too uppity. :-)

with the passing of the older folk generation, the end of folk music as we knew it is in sight.

We had folk clubs in the UK, there are not as many as there were and sometimes the ones we have don't do so well. (Others do)

But there really are young people coming in. They may not do what you and I did (and in truth there is a slight lack of singers) but they do do music.