Your deninitition makes every song performed in a folk club a folk song - Blackleg Miner is performed in hundreds of folk folk clubs therefore, by your own definition - it is a folk song - stop blustering and take your foot out of your mouth.

JC - for feck's sake at least read the posts before mouthing off. In the past I've wasted more words than enough trying to get you to understand the most basic of points & I don't intend doing so here. We can't get any place as long as you continue to misrepresent what I've said in the past, much less obfuscate what I've said here.

CS sumks it up perfectly anyway. Nothing more to say on the matter.

Otherwise, for the record:

1) My primary interest in so-called folk concerns the Old Traditional Songs and the people who made and sang them.

2) If what happens in the name of Revival Folk doesn't relate strongly to 1 then I'm not really interested.

3) Because it very rarely does, in my despair I postulated a new evidence based definition based on what does actually happen in the name of folk - i.e. that Folk Music can be pretty much anything that happens in a Designated Folk Context - including Fake Song like the Blackleg Miner.

4) Because of this I don't attend those sort of clubs any more and am as a consequence a more contented soul altogether.