Yes we seem to have meandered off the topic UK60s Folk Club boom

I would suggest that times do change and that word meanings have and do change

Not everyone wants to nor needs to change their thinking, others will argue that is not necessarily good think to ignore passage of time and how things have changed

Folk song ~ to many like me includes traditional song, however it is defined ~ it does not exclude Contemporary folk song ~ yes agree sometimes difficult to separate contemporary folk song from popular music and certainly whilst pop artist use traditional song to arrange and record and entertain audiences it is bound to get worse in the future

Time is a respecter of no man ~ we are all getting older and audiences are younger and looking to modern ways ~ hopefully still respecting the sources of their music

I do applaud the arrangements by musically gifted artists of traditional song using the folk instruments such as fiddles, guitars concertinas et al as well as the unaccompanied singers which is still very popular in dedicated sessions

Ray (over 70 btw)