"Well done Mr Carroll. "
Thanks for your patronising post - pity it is totally devoid of substance.
My view of folk song is back up by decades of research and libraries full of books - I have yet to see an alternative definition nor a convincing argument - "folk song is what I care to call it" seems the order of the day - and yesterday..... and every day since these arguments began - the main loser being the music.
"demise of certain types of folk club "
You mean we have weekly clubs and large, young audiences for whatever you acre to call folk song?
Somehow, I doubt it.
Jim Carroll