Don-

Happy tea totaling to you. I dont mind your habits.

You should stick to the point-

having folk music events in expensive places locks out the poor folk
simple!

but rather than admit it you attack me.

so you are supporting the view that john p proposed - folk music venues have no place for unemployed people or thrifty shoppers!

yes there is some merit in spreading folk music to the wealthy classes but there is no merit in limiting it in any way.

I think your problem is that you think things are working at top speed and they are working at extra slow and you are too old to accept change. You like exclusivity as you are under the impression that you make more that way WRONG

Rock and Roll and Jazz are not folk music any more than Classical Music is folk music.

There are borrowings and shared elements but it is generally well recognized that there are individual and distinct genres of music. It is trendy to claim that there are none but it doesnt really help analysis and that is what definitions are for.

Conrad