I just picked up a new issue of a magazine from the UK, called Songlines, the World Music Magazine.

Among the articles is an interesting one called Talkin' 'Bout Regeneration

It likens the resurgence in FOLK to something akin to a Regeneration with The Doctor. Whole different face on a reasonably similar background. The British appear to have added the youth of the land who have a completely different take on the music of the ages.

A quote from Martin Carthy goes: "They [young people now attending the concerts] give off an energy which an audience of the same age didn't have 30 or 40 years ago. They just eat this stuff up. There's a real need for this source music."

Among the young artists they mention are:

Bellowhead
Cara Dillon
Eighteenth Day of May
Tim van Eyken
Seth Lakeman
Pinkie McClure
Jim Moray
Karine Polwart
James Raynard
Lou Rhodes
Alasdair Roberts
Soft Hearted Scientists
Tunng
Chris Wood

They all sound interesting from the short writeup in the article.