You obviously differentiate between 'folk' and 'tradition' - please explain your definitions.
As far as I'm concerned we came into 'folk music', then retreated from the term when people began to use it as a dustbin to dump anything they couldn't be bothered to categorise. To me, the music I started to listen to is, was and always will be 'folk' until somebody gets up off their backside and produce a satisfactory new definition (rather than wandering round with a blank expression claiming they don't understand!). We even had some clown (apparently for commercial reasons) suggessting that we now abandon the term 'traditition' - sheeeeesh.....
I have never heard a horse sing either; nor have I come across one who has produced a half-decent alternative to the term 'folk'.
If we rely on dumb animals for our information we really must be in a bad way.
Jim Carroll