Folk music is music for folks. If they want a mosh pit, they'll have one. It don't have to be some pre-packaged, frozen-in-time, authorized by whoever-has-the-snotrag-now-that-Woody-Guthrie-once-used, collection of songs done in the once-expected fashion. It's evolving all the time. Good thing too, even if it means it's sometimes crappy, sometimes boring, sometimes over-the-top, sometimes inspired.

Those old trad songs and tunes were written by somebody once, and evolved as they passed from ear to ear, mouth to mouth, and hand to hand. Todays songs become tomorrow's trad. New instuments and equipment come into it, new singing styles and voices, new standards of musical performance and there ya go...

Folk music: it isn't just for patchouli anymore.    :-)