If 'it' = your personal enjoyment, how could anyone carry it on without you? The thread topic is moot.

If 'it' = folk music, traditional, contemporary, whatever, the music that connects with the most consumers gets carried forward. Nevermind getting rich and famous, you could be dead and gone, no problemo.

If either of you own more than a half dozen songbooks and/or records, you've participated in defining and carrying folk forward more as a consumer than artist.