"'Folk' has moved on from 60 years ago"
The definition has not moved anywhere unless someone has slipped one in when I haven't been looking - there is no existing alternative definition.
What passes for 'folk' in the revival has moved not so much on but away from its roots and the music that I love has all but died exactly because of this.
Sorry - wouldn't go near a folk fesival that puts on folk/rock without protective clothing.
Never found it particularly approachable when it was popular - nowadays it's downright an anachronistic - sort of like the punks who were still hanging around the corner of Kings Road and Royal Square when we left London..
If Walter Pardon were to miraculously turn up at a folk club today he'd find himself locked up in one of these immigration compounds waiting until they could find out where he came from so they could ship him back there
Jim Carroll