Hi Hillary, I had my tongue in cheek when I asked "what's a Child Ballad?"
I'd say Lighter that their are plenty of folks that still sing Child ballads. As a lovers of ballads & as one who loves to sing them & hear them. I do them them a-plenty but it's not all that common to hear them anymore or where one gets the opportunity to sing them in venues where you'd find a general public willing to sit through them. Example; as Curmudgeon mentioned way above while we have plenty of those in the the Southeastern area of NH that sing ballads (not just Child either) but you may not hear them often unless they get together at sessions or such that aren't run by the instrumentalists. It takes a bit more than the average music lover has to sit through a bunch of ballads singers though some could do it for days on end, me being one. The weekly or monthly venues I go to folks don't want to sit through them but if I'm at a musical weekend like the getaway or the like, ballads could get sung all night non stop by a host of singers, many who post here.

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