If you rip traditional music up by the roots as it has been in the clubs and as it is bow being in academic circles it will never revive
Traditional music is now being lumped in with all other forms of popular music by a small group of researchers - take your eye off the ball now and that is how it will be seen py the general public
The club scene was established largely on the basis of the folk songs that were being collected in the 1950s, that is why thousands of British clubs were established - to listen to those songs and ones being made using traditional forms.
When it became possible to leave a folk club without hearing a folk song, thousands waled away from the scene, club numbers were decimated, labels, magazines and shps dedicated to selling folk albums, instruments and books disappeared - go count them now to see how many are left
It's not as anybody has won out over the change of policy - there are no audiences for music hal, Victorian Parlour Ballads, Music Hall renditions or whatever passed for folk songs in the New Age folk clubs.

The Irish traditional music scene is throbbing aat present with thousands of youngsters pouring in to listen and play
The British scene isn't, in my opinion, because people can no longer choose what they want to listen to
If you walk away from that situation you may as well hold a Requiem Mass for British folk song
Jim Carroll