I'm not too worried. I'm amazed at the number of young players that show up for our twice-monthly fiddle tune jam. There's such a tie-in again between the music they listen to and the folk instrumentation.

I just did a festval (East Lansing) where the entertainment included two VERY young groups doing very atypical music for their age if major media were to be believed (they aren't -- to be believed, that is). "Duhk" and "Steppin In It" -- two bands full of twenty-somethings. Add to that String Cheese Incident and all the other jam bands -- folk music will have a young element. Always.