If you are a performer who is paid,you have to perform well to justify being paid,ending your act by falling down drunk or stoned is not acceptable.
What is or isn't folk music is a never ending debate as this forum has demonstrated seemingly for ever.
Mo's point that folk music is whatever people choose to sing or play for their own entertainment is broadly correct.
Many people maintain only the traditional songs and tunes are true folk
music.This ignores the fact that they were new when composed and only became trad because they were adopted and repeated by people.Tradition is the act of doing the same thing at certain times or in certain circumstances.
Eliza Carthy was making the point that Mo was,the way she expressed it was perhaps a little too earthy for some.
She didn't say that is or should be Efdss policy, she was expressing her own opinion.