classical music - maybe theres some sort of folk process going. Ralph McTell had a go at a guitar version of The Trout, and ascribed it to Mendelson - give a while, it will be traditional.

' I first hard Pete Seeger at The Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool - classical music, no doubt
Last Year I watched some of Ireland's finest traditional singers and musicians in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin - all performing plays, no doubt.'

You're looking for definition, and legally binding concepts, and blueprints where none exist. folk is more evanescent than that. nowadays its being written by call centre workers, teachers, salesmen, computer programmers, students, nurses - whatever people work at nowadays. their voice is no less valid than fishermen, farmers, gypsies - their lives no less full of struggle and heartbreak.