Here in Scotland we still get a few of the old favourites, we had Archie Fisher in a little village hall a couple of weeks ago. Archie is one of the few who can interpret traditional and contemporary songs in the folk idiom....I class his wonderful song Windward Away on a par with anything by Ewan MacColl.
Unfortunately the younger performers don't appear to favour solo work and the fashion is for a four or five piece group with guitars keyboards and the ubiquitous drum kit. There is usually a young female singer who can barely be heard over the din as they thrash their instruments to pieces....the volume is absolutely unbelievable and the genre of little account. These kids are carted around by adoring parents who are under the misapprehension that they had produced talent.