SS, if this thread was pure description without any advocacy it would have died in five minutes - I think everyone posting here, from Jim to Bryan to glueman, already knows that a free-for-all gallimaufry of varying styles and standards is widely on offer under the banner of 'folk'. You're clearly celebrating the way things are in (some) contemporary folk clubs, proposing that the word 'folk' should be used to reflect those clubs and advocating that the rest of us join you in abandoning any alternative definition.