Al - if you go back to the beginning of this thread (I know it's a long way) I said it was not a matter of quality. Plenty of people like stuff that isn't folk. I even like some of it (a bit of a metaller and at other times pub-rocker on the sly). Quite a it of stuff I don't like is folk - there's a whole wodge of traditional (insofar as a country that young can have a tradition -:o) American stuff I don't like and lots of eastern European or far Eastern traditional stuff I don't like too.

They may be very nice zebras. But they aren't horses. Indeed the difference might be more like giraffes and horses.

Why does anyone want to murder the horses, to breed them out of existence?

I mean, I can I think infer Lizzie's reasons - but why does anyone else do it? Indeed I'm puzzled why she might want to stop Snow of Blands playing traditional songs...