Some of the musicians who were around at the time refer to the "Folk Scare" of the sixties. Folk music is not in its demise, it continues on under the notice of the popular media. The internet may turn out to be the greatest thing that ever happened to folk music because it has opened up this music to a vast intelligentsia who were never before aware of it. Garnet Rogers said that being a folk musician was like being in the Federal Witness Protection Program - they know you are out there but they can't find you. The internet with sites like Mudcat are the reason that folk music will survive - it is, like the internet, the voice of common people.