I promote the concept of folk music and go to information providers to give them information. Once we have got past their "I am the information source, we tell you" and accepted "well actually you know more than us" we inevitably get into the "well there's line dancing in ***** on Tues" !!
I doubt there are many who would call line dancing folk in either camps. Then there is the "well they have music in XYZ pub" which is obviously loud hit parade stuff and the "information provider" is confusing the 60's progression from Bob Dylan to "anything that comes out of a juke box is folk (if you like that kind of thing)" scenario.

The general public don't know what folk is but they know it when they see it dancing in bells and baldricks.

And when they hear a session, it is all Irish music. Even with the myriad English sessions around the country - (and a few Welsh ones I list).

Is it any wonder that folkies get annoyed. They get labelled incorrectly, by people who laugh at them. We have a right to fight back. Even in this broad church where we worship.