Mauvepink, my point is that "traditional" means quite different things in jazz and folk. Playing "traditional" jazz still wouldn't make it welcome in a "traditional" folk club.

In this context we're talking about traditional folk singers, not trad jazzers, or traditional rappers if there are such things.

As I said earlier, if you don't see a distinction or don't think it's important, then you don't need the vocabulary. For those of us who do, then having different words to describe them is useful, if only we could agree on them. Unfortunately, getting folkies to agree is like herding cats. I'm reminded of Through the Looking Glass: `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'