"I just think exclusivity and exclusion is the wrong way to go for all of us."

Who's excluding anyone, WLD? We keep coming back to this 'beef' that you have about these 'wicked' traddies excluding you - but, digging deeper, your real beef seems to be that some people on this forum don't accept that what you do is folk music:

"People being told as I have been on this thread(albeit in a kindly way) what you have done with your life isn't folk music."

But, if you're, "...not sure I have a definition of folk music" how do you know whether or not they have a valid point?