It's not true to suggest, as some posts above have done, that folk clubs where you can hear traditional songs being sung are dying out. There's more than enough for me here in London. Maybe it's different elsewhere but there's more clubs than I have time to go to.

Yes, there were way more in the 1960s. But it's not the 1960s and it hasn't been the 1960s since the 1960s. It doesn't bother me that trad folk music is not as popular as it once was; just as it doesn't bother me that baroque music is not as popular as it once was; or that acid house is not as popular as it once was; or that formal metrical poetry is not as possible as it once was.

It exists, it's documented, the songbooks are there, the albums are there, and there are still folk clubs and folk festivals and singarounds and sessions. The seasons they change. Shit happens.