Folk music has its own subculture, whether insignificant or not. As LtS points out, a lot of people go to Sidmouth, and an extraordinary number of other folk festivals. But folk music, aprt from having its own sub-culture, also pentrates many aspects of other parts of the cultural scene. I play in a band that virtually exclusiely plays traditional folk music. But we very very rarely play in folk clubs(not from choice, I must add), and though we do play quite a few folf festivals that is by no means our main source of work. We play all kinds of festivals, broad-baseed music festivals like Glastonbury, plus all kinds of other celebrarprions/festivals: boat festivals, sea festivals, country fairs, steam gatherings, carnivals, plus loads of weddings and private parties. Folk music does get around to parts you won't read about in the mainstream press (or in FRoots, for that matter).