I think it's best not to prejudge your audience & fellow-singers

I'm not judging or prejudging, merely pointing out how things are with respect of Folk as a middle-class construct that operates at several very significant removes from the culture in which these songs originated. In over 40 years of folkin' I've never found it to be any different : the more Trad the club, the more middle-class the singers. Over here in our proletarian sea-side Shangri-La you'd be lucky to hear ONE traditional song in the local folk club, which is why I gave up long ago - not because I'm too stuck up, but because there was little point in them trying to enjoy my shit, or me trying to enjoy theirs. Fair dos, I suppose.

This is not a judgement though, it's an observation on the very nature of Folk as a cultural artifice born from long years of bitter-sweet experience. Ultimately I see no real harm in it & in most cases it's a very good thing in providing the catalyst for some amazing music, but none of it quite so amazing as the real thing which, unfortunately, it does tend to obscure rather, despite seeking to somehow represent it.