The "revival" which is another word describing those living in the past realising slowly that folk music has never gone away in the first place... is wonderful to hear, great to involve yourself in and considering music is an abstraction, and folk, just like any other genre, puts the human touch to it with words, is doing fine.

Proscription may have been interesting to those who like that sort of thing but it did harm to the general spread of folk as a word to describe a set of types of music. The irony being that the description of folk that some were proscribing did in itself mean "evolving." Quite funny really.

In more recent years, many have taken to using the term "acoustic roots" in order to appeal to those who equate the word "folk" with dinosaurs sitting round a volcano arguing points of order. The response of the evolutionary inept lizards? To scoff at the child they raised. All rather sad really, if you were to take their opinions at face value.

But folk is alive, kicking and appealing to audiences of all ages. The old folk clubs may be far less and many have evolved into singarounds, but the music and its appeal has wandered nicely into other platforms. A revival indeed.