Of course folk music has become middle class. In the 60s we were young and idealistic attending the new folk clubs on our bikes, on the bus or clapped out old Ford, with the those new Japanese guitars or Ekos and the like . Now we are in our older years, retired, playing high end guitars and arriving in 4x4s. It’s a different world and we are different from the younger folk enthusiasts. The days of the folk club, as we knew it, are passed and a new vibrant gang have taken ‘folk’ to a new place. That’s the way of the world because in 10 or 15 years our version of ‘folk’ will be dead along with us.