Folk hasn't become more passive rather than participatory, but these are increasingly happening in different and separate settings. Even in the traditional folk club, a floor singer would normally expect to perform only two or maybe three songs in an evening and the rest of the time would be spent listening to others. Now what seems to be happening is that people go to some events to be part of a listening audience (which does not rule out joining in with choruses) and to entirely different events to participate as singers and musicians. These are not necessarily being held in traditional folk clubs, and the (typically older) folk club audiences may not even be aware of what younger folk enthusiasts are doing.