True traditional singing died with Fred Jordan, surely

Not really Ruth, as an example, we still have Shepherd meets around here where the singers sing traditional songs.

And just 'cos your traveller sang Kenny Rogers one night does not mean he doesn't sing other stuff other nights. A £ to a pinch of snuff he knows "Buttercup Joe". And there are a few singers around here (Sheffield) that learnt their songs orally from their family. Roger Hinchcliffe is still a young man.

Cecil Sharp rushed around at the turn of the century 'cos folk song was dying out. At the amalgamation of the two societies in 1932 it was more or less agreed that there were few folk singers left. Peter Kennedy rushed around with his tape recorder 55 years ago because when he went back to Stanley Slade he found he was dead.

And the carols are traditional - does that make people like me who have learnt them orally as I have a traditional singer?