You just cannot, even remotely, consider that it is people like yourself with the narrow, turgid, bombastic approach to what is or isn't folk music that may have been a cause of the limited appeal of the genre can you.

I have used the word pontificating before and I will use it again, you merely pontificate about a world you don't even know exists.

Folk music as it is known to thousands of people the length and breadth of the country is doing very well.

Your version has a very limited appeal, and more to the point you know it.