Anyone who writes contemporary music and calls it folk music helps to kill folk music - or at least to dilute the bloodline so much that the inheritance becomes invisible.

I don't object to contemporary acoustic music (or whatever name you want to give it) - but it isn't folk music.

It is remarkably similar to diluting ethnic traditions - dilute them enough and you sanitise cultural identity.

We defend folk music by performing it and re-interpreting it. Not by asserting that the cuckoo in the nest is the true hatchling.