Just watched the BBC 4 show from CC.   It was horrifying.
No wonder people are moving away from "folk music".
Jazz influence seems to be the latest gimmick,along with "punk folk" and the incongruous sight and sound of "world music" accompanied by electric guitars and synthesisers.

Surely we have lost our way, most of this new wave stuff is pretentious crap.
Near the end of the show, as if to show what real folk music is all about, was a little gem.
It was a set of tunes by Tim O'Grady, Dennis Cahill and Martin Hayes,just a fiddle guitar and melodian, but they were an inspiration.
The faces of the performers as they played, said it all,they were a study in concentration and sensitivity,they new that they were creating something capable of touching the heart.

The attempts to turn folk music into a business, always seeking bigger and new audiances will eventually alienate the musics' core supporters, who love it for the emotion, the beauty and the comradship..Ake