I have no idea who the subject of this discussion is, but hope the following may provoke thoughts about the music post-Covid 19?
Local events like sessions were thriving before Covid, so why does folk music need all these myriad festivals and clubs and other organised events at all?
As DnG says, folk music seemed to manage OK up till then & although there was plenty of collected material around at that stage, it took the likes of Lonnie Donegan to point many of us in the right direction. His music was accessible, unlike those sources... I do recall researching the EFDSS's collection in the 60s being more forbidding than Fort Knox- not like Youtube in that respect?

There was probably a time about 60 plus years ago when many in UK became aware of their own tradition and like myself tried to absorb it- we became involved in the folk clubs- from early childhood I was always aware of the songs of my own Tyneside but knew little of the Child Ballads, Northumbrian Minstrelsy - that knowledge came later, via the folk clubs.

Since then, the clubs have done us all a great service on a local basis, but I've never really understood the attraction of festivals without a distinct local & community basis- Ireland is good at this, and also at honouring respected musicians, and I think of the East Anglian & Scottish TMSA festivals as good models.
I cannot see the enjoyment in flying around the country listening to much the same super-folkies every weekend of summer although younger people have no doubt found these events to have other attractions?- there speaks an old codger!

I contributed an article some tears ago to 'Living Tradition'about folk music having its roots in the community & regretting the more recent negative influence of commerce & I stand by that.
I do folk clubs very rarely these days, and I do realise some people have made a career of it, and good luck to them. However, it's not really a job and I think the present emergency may be bringing all that to an end.
If the Covid-19 has the longterm effect of ending the nationwide club/festival scene, I would not regret it. Its future may be in the past- after all, it survived for centuries in communities before the 'revival' and taken with the huge increase in availability of song, story and music by digital means, there are more than enough young singers & musicians to continue the music on a local basis.
Most importantly, they should do it in their own way, without interference from us old codgers on Mudcat.