There is some wonderfully vibrant new stuff about in modern folk in recent years of which Bellowhead are probably the most prominent, but from north of the Border, the Peatbog Faeries and Breabach have put a whole new slant on bagpipe music, while the likes of 3 Daft Monkeys, Mumford and Sons, Ahab, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Rusby, Seth Lakeman, Spiers and Boden (2/11ths of Bellowhead), The Shee, have all moved folk onto new ground - and most of these lovely people, and indeed much of their audience, are under 30.
Folk is the new hip-hop - discuss........