As far as I can see no one has said the folk scene is as healthy numbers wise, Dick. We all know that the numbers are nowhere near where they were. But they are nowhere near as dire as some would have us believe.

Interesting list of names, Ray. I have heard them all do folk songs but dare I say that none of them fit into the definition of folk that we have been told we must apply. Yet they all used to fill folk clubs in the golden age when only folk songs were performed at folk clubs ;-)