Meanwhile, out here in the real world, life, and folk (music, song, lore, tales, customs, traditions etc. etc.) quite happily endures as a consequence of simply living and breathing.

If only that were true. The participants who try to carry on such traditions may be quite happy but these only just endure despite the best efforts of national and local government to obstruct them by entaglement in official red tape.

Mumming plays need Premises License Entertainment Permission to make them legal and any thing that is provided to enable the public to entertain themselves in music and dancing also needs this permission as an Entertainment Facility. See:

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