Back home now, and found the John McCusker quote I mentioned earlier:

Do you think the folk scene has had a resurgence in recent years?

Yes, I do, I've been doing it professionally for eighteen years now and you see the media taking a look at it now and again and saying folk music's trendy and then it goes away and I go on making a living. We're all still doing it, but certainly in the last few years I've never seen it so healthy. We see it from a different perspective because we're the ones going out and doing it. It's not just a newspaper that writes an article saying it's not about beards any more or Aaron jumpers and that there's now young people doing it. Well, there's always been young people doing it, and there always has been.

Full interview at EFestivals.com.