You're likely right - but I've never hunted through the pictures to check, and the people with pictures are only a small sample of the people on the Cat anyway.

But I'd suspect that there are people on the Cat that you might assume are "white" who aren't. That's the nature of the Internet.

Insofar as there might be fewer people of other colours and ethnic origins into folk music in various places than you'd expect, I'd suspect there are different reasons. And I'd think that it's not true in all places. Well obviously it's not true. Africa and Asia and KLatin America are full of people enjoying and performing folk music.

But as for the folk clubs and folk festivals and folk venues of Northern Europe and North America and a few other places - I'd like to hear if there's any sense that in some way they are felt as unwelcoming by black people and brown people.