Museums are fascinating places but few choose to live their lives as shepherds. Even so, lots of people fancy a thatched roof and oak beams. The genus 'traditional' will always exist but observation of its influence suggests it no longer has a unique claim to the word folk - outside of boards like this. Music will never restrict itself to being overseen and compartmentalised by committees, boards, taxonomists and intellectuals, especially the music of the people because that's not the way music works. You can't stop transmission because a few people suggest you'll knacker it by doing so. The evidence suggests we're all getting a lesson, and a living lesson in what folk really is.