Too many people are trying to stake a claim on the term "Tradition" or "Traditional." As if there is only one of them.

I remember being really annoyed at a graduate school classmate one time, as we went around the room introducing ourselves. She said she was from a "traditional American family" and proceeded to describe her Southern Baptist dad and Korean mom's ultra conservative and religious home life. Nothing like MY traditional family (Irish dad, Norwegian mom, four kids, dad was a teacher, mom stayed home, no religion to speak of, only in the distance, blah blah blah). In fact, neither of us was in a position to judge or be annoyed by the other's use (not appropriation) of "Traditional"

In the tradition of your communities, your counties, states, countries, you practice folk music. And no two Traditions are exactly alike.

SRS