Just read through this so a quick reply to amusing accusation: as a fluent baloney speaker and someone who has played sporadically in uk folk clubs for many years I always utilised a degree of improvisation in my guitar playing getting freer as time passed. When I was unable to sing anymore I would play instrumental guitar usually based on the twentieth century popular music canon, chromatic aaba forms in the main and would usually play improvised choruses. Added to this free improvisations based often on modal structures. I also played backup guitar often with a friend since deceased and usually improvised my accompanying lines to his basic ‘folk’ accompaniments and singing. Moreover, to tie in with another comment: given John Cage’s aims with 4 33 why could a performance not be considered as a form of ‘folk’ music? The sounds encompassed by the performative circumstance would be a democratic sonic experience created by the humans in the audience. And musician. Perhaps a concert could be launched called ‘Folk Cage?’ The score is easily accessible and a performer found with a banjo in a case maybe. Or similar sonic annoyance…