It is sad that so many so called folk musicians only bring forward the echos of their own thoughts and not the legacy of the past as well.

Conrad, if you feel it is important to somehow represent the past when making music, have at it. You might, however, want to actually learn about the past before you start representing yourself as a representative of the past. For me, I feel no compunction to represent anything other playing music as well as I can. You seem to feel that being a folk musician means one also has to be a historian or musicologist or some such thing. I enjoy history and musicology, and am apparently a lot better educated in those topics than you are, but I see no reason to turn every stage into a classroom and every song into an academic study. I'm a musician. I play folk music. How about if you do whatever you think is right and stop telling other people they are doing it wrong?

You seem to be confusing the concept of traditional music with historical recreation. They're not the same.