Jim,
I like your answer to my question about 'Sylvest'. Respect.

I am with you 99% of the way for what it's worth. Almost all of us interested in any way in traditional folk music know pretty precisely what we are talking about when we discuss it and your 'definition' of this would probably fit my definition like a glove.

BUT it didn't do King Cnut any good telling the tide to go back. 'Folk Music' has come to have a much wider accepted meaning over the last 50 years and this doesn't need to have a definition. Like other genres of music it is a broad umbrella. I can live with this.