'cleese, Calling it Fred wouldn't avoid any confusion 'cos I've got a guitar named Fred.

Mbo, The way I interpret Art's remark is that Folk music is natural music and fake music is 'contrived' music. If someone sings or plays music naturally just for the sheer enjoyment of it then it's folk music. If someone is playing something for some artificial reason then that is fake music. Some of the artificial reasons for playing music are... commercial, political, sponsored, prestigious and religious. You can probably think of some more. And you don't have to like any of it just because it's music. Of course that doesn't stop people from singing 'fake music' just for the enjoyment of it; then it becomes folk music.

But as Art says 'we know it when we hear it'.

Bert.