You might get someone like me on the interview panel who knowns and cares about the difference between a folksong singer (which you are or might be) and a folk singer (which you aren't).

Now that's as irksome a piece of petty pedantry I've read in long while, Richard! I'm sure most of us who sing folk songs (traditional, contemporary, feral, wyrd, Gothic, or otherwise) think of ourselves as folk singers - which we are, regardless of what you think you know or supposedly care about.