Vic has it absolutely right - and BB & I work on both sides of the scene. And so has GUEST,John from Kemsing.

For the great wide world out there, it's rather a parallel to the trend whereby, if you read the headlines, only stuff funded by the Arts Council was ART. We're now getting to where the stuff that is media promoted as folk becomes the only folk there is. That's life.

If some of that stuff IS folk, then I need a new word for the stuff I love - and 'traditional music' is too narrow. It's the way of the world er.... folks!