While the dangers of fascism can not be ignored, aren't we in danger of over-inflating the significance of a few BNP typers taking an interest in folk music? I have always felt (without getting too religious about it) that listening to, and paricipating in the making of folk music is quite a redeeming thing. Might it not actually be quite a good thing if a few right wingers learn Pleasnat and Delightful and discover the pleasure of harmony singing. And if folk clubs were a bit more multi-cultural(I wish), maybe people might get turned on to music that is a bit unfamiliar to them; and possibly even to the singers thereof?
That bloke on the Royle Family is a good example of a folkie who got redeemed.Things can change.
I doubt if singing folk songs is going to improve a died in the wool hardcore Nazi, but I doubt if it would do one much harm, either.