And thereby made it available to thousands of people who would otherwise never have heard folk music. How is taking folk music out of clique driven dingy back rooms and giving it to the masses a bad thing?
your words giving it to the masses is generally defined as commercialiosation
2, SONGS THAT ARE SUNG AT FOOTBALL MATCHES ARE SUNG BY THE MASSES, and according to the 1954 defintion are folk songs , nobody would pay to hear such garbage as thewheelbarrowsong at a folk club , if that is what you want dave ,that is not what i want to hear at a folk club , please define the music you would like the masses to hear and let me know how you think it should be performed so that the masses would like it, and then we might notice how commercialisation takes ther music away from the roots.
3 you mention one club, in swinton and mould, are you generalising from the particular again Gnome, i am sure the organsiers at Swinton would thank you for dissing their premises , they would possibly call you something else other than gn0ome