In Scotland, instrumental dance tunes and folk songs have always been seen as two parts of the same genre. Folk clubs and festivals host both, and the dance tune repertoire has always used song tunes.

They're different takes on the same material. Around here you could get a tune done an week as a trad song, a celidh band number, a pipe band tune, a brass band medley or used to annoy people by a Rangers flute band. And the same people could be doing that same tune in completely different ways. Nobody but a middlebrow radio presenter would think folk music is only done by singers with guitars.