"Isn't nouveau folk a bit of a high-brow, arty and pretentious-moi term?"

Yes. I thought it was invented by Thomas Stern who started this thread. If you Google for it you find this thread and then a load of fashion stuff, and one rather obscure music link in the first page. That's why I asked whether it was like "nu-folk" (whatever that is, but it's a more popular term)

Never mind, welcome to Mudcat - thanks for de-lurking!

Anahata