What 'ilk' would that be?

Music is an industry as any other in which workers sell their labour power. Makes no difference whether your business is to produce educated (in a fashion) new graduates to service the workplace or packets of rice krispies. It's called capitalism under which the arts are not extolled as anything special (unless, of course, they make money).

To talk about 'cameraderie (sic) on the fringes of the folk world' sounds like just another excuse for out-of-tune and -time thumping and thrashing from the 'good-enough-for-f*lk' brigade who pride themselves on never buying a festival ticket and thus do not support the industry in any way whatsoever.

That some of them are nice to each other sometimes differs in no way from the behaviour of any other sort of micro-community. To start listing the shits instead wouldn't be hard and possibly a lot more useful.