Coffee houses are one thing, Ron but what about concert halls? Who today can fill a concert hall like a Peter, Paul, and Mary, Kingston Trio, Chad Mitchell Trio, Brothers Four, Paxton and Lightfoot in their prime, Baez, Dylan, Collins, Odette, Theodore Bikel, and Pete Seeger did and in some cases still do? These are all people who are identified with folk music. For a particular generation, they were folk music.

Who today can get people to sing along with a song they might know? Who today has come up with a song that stays in the collective consciousness of today's generation and will be sung and remembered by that generation 40 years from now?

OK, the point has been made that there are young people today who can perform and play folk music. The name of this thread is "The Last Generation." I think the point is that the baby boomers are the last generation who as a generation, embraced folk music.

It's not saying that a future generation can't or won't. But the world is such a different place now.