There are, of course a few singers still to find and songs to record.
One source Azizi mentioned on another thread - children's songs, has hardly been tapped and I am told (no personal experience) is constantly developing.
We have been recording a couple of singers here in Clare recently - but they are now few and far between and both of the two we know are very elderly.
The days when we could fill a dozen or so tapes of songs during a two-week holiday is long gone.
What has taken place is an arbitrary re-definition of both folk song and traditional singer in order to validate claims that the tradition has not died and to justify 'collecting' from fellow revivalists - sorry, not convinced. By and large our society has become culturally passive and as a general rule we have little, if any part in the creation of our oral literature. The same cannot be said for Irish music, but the jury is still out on whether that will be swallowed up by the music or the tourist industry (fingers crossed).
Up to his recent death, Tom Munnelly, the only full-time collector in the British Isles and Ireland was mainly documenting his collection, with occasional forays to record staged performances at weekend singing and music festivals. In spite of strenuous efforts, he said on many occasions that the heyday of the oral tradition had long gone.
Our own interest has always extended to oral history, so we are kept fairly active in recording local people talking about the old farming and fishing techniques, local place and field names, etc, but even that is rapidly disappearing.
Can't speak for further afield.
Jim Carroll