I don't know about anyone else, but the only places I can go to to get folk music regularly are the local folk clubs. That's where I find out about the festivals etc. I really do not understand this knocking - if you don't like your nearest club go to another. My local club does a mix of traditional, established singer/songwriters, new kids on the block....

When I was young - ahhh - I used to like singer/songwriters and thought traditional music boring (not counting the geordie stuff where I came from, of course!), then I moved to Lancashire and fell in with large numbers of active folkies, singing new and old. Nowadays I prefer the traditional. I suggest that this is because they are the songs that have lasted, the tat have fallen by the wayside. Go hear a new singer songwriter and you get the tat alongside the good stuff!

Not that there aren't good songs coming. Of course there are.