Well, all music is traditional, so as long as there's human beings there'll be traditional music. On another level Traditional Folk Music is already dead anyway, and it's The Folk Revival you have to worry about, or not, because it's doing just fine by my reckoning despite the generation gap.

When I die then that'll the end of everything as far as I'm concerned, but right now there'll be a kid being born who might pick up a fiddle in a few years time and come 2032* will be wowing audiences at Sidmouth with his or her unique handling of The Tradition, but who knows the myriad of musical developments & inspirations that will have become part of that Tradition in the next twenty-one years? I just hope I'm still around to find out really, aged 70... Folk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop, Classical; you bet it's going to be sublime.

However, if the question here is really Will people stop doing what the Spinners did in 1964 after the current Folk generation who think that that equates with Traditional Music have all died then the answer has to be Yes. Thank God. Whip Jamboree and all.

*2032 is also the year of the predicated Great Enlightment of Humanity consequent upon the manifestation of the Planet Gong. I think that's going to effect things greatly too, and it won't surprise me in the slightest if the 94-year-old Daevid Allen is still on hand to preside over the festivities with his glissando guitar...