Eddie,
I wonder if I have met you! We were at all the festivals at Blairgowrie and then at Kinross. I can remember a conversation with Belle, who we got to know well, about just this subject and she said that she was saddened by the younger people turning away from the traditional culture to Country and Western - which all travellers seemed to love.
I tried to give her the example of the fact that young American blacks were turning their backs on their heritage of the blues, which they often called 'Slave Music' and going overboard for Soul music which did not have these unfortunate associations and was regarded as 'cool'. Perhaps it was the same with the Scots travellers' rich cultural heritage. The young travellers associated this with the rejection and prejudice that their 'tinker' parents had suffered and as an alternative were embracing the mainstream.