back when it got released, I used to play this song on repeat because I wanted to

Romanian folk used to be about haidouks (some sort of Robin Hood outlaws)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vnxemB0D6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBX_hlkocc

Then in the 80's-90's it switched towards jazzy, postmodernist, romantic motifs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDrZPctw1E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt5Zsgsbmp4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKlxWA3xEgE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDouPzwG9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOJ_FM4rAaA

Folk music was the accompanying voice of the 1989 Eastern Bloc Fell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiQ4sLsC00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E19EPlofKcY

although even the Communist Party used to dig it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejMK3xTwV8

As of recently, new-school folk has mostly to do with satire and sarcasm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuXIYVyKh18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-Kkd-w5Tk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXqFAbtg8gk

bonus: Karma band bestly represents casual Romanian folk - the song of the mountaineers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87uWR3Jo4yc

also, it is important to realize that folk music is not to be confounded, at least in Romanian, with folklore music, also known as "popular music", or traditional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8XCOLDbtY

A link between folk and folklore is this living legend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4rCfkyB_X8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VfW0B1YP7w

"Folk You" is currently the main promoting platform:

http://www.romania-insider.com/folk-you-alternative-music-fe.../