How can it be music of the lower classes? I like it and I am about as high class as you can get outside of a palace...

If the thread must continue, then take the word folk out and ask what is music? My responsible adult is a bell ringer, and they class that in their minds as being music. Think it through, their "methods" are either steeped in history or written by a bloke yesterday and have more than a "ring" of tradition about them. But.. be buggered if I would call it folk music...

Folk music is what ever drifts into your head when you hear the term I suppose. So, for me, it is blokes with beards and sandals, women with ethnic skirts and issues, and somewhere along the line, blokes like me who have a nostalgic sense of recapturing a youth spent in upstairs of pubs with candles on the tables, and who are grateful for the attention when people clap as we sing songs about something we have never experienced...

Bloody good fun though, all the same.