I think we're in danger of going overboard here.Like most of the contributors on this board I love folk music, I love the trad stuff and I love the new stuff. I sing the trad stuff and also the new stuff. I love ( most of)the music on the radio two folk show, not so keen on Mike H, but I can tolerate him . There are always dark mutterings when prizes are given out and I think there's a danger we are being whipped up into a frenzy over nothing much here. The stuff about the White Hare and is it or isn't it traditonal ,there are lots of examples of songs that have slipped under the net as trads when they're not, and there's a whole debate about how long something must exist before its deemed traditional. I hear the distant footsteps of Ewan McColl and his Commie enforcers.
Aren't we all on the same side? And if we're not, shouldn't we be?