In 1958 The Kingston Trio stormed commercial radio with Tom Dooley and changed the rules of the folk music game. Suddenly folk music was a pop music contender. The so called “revival” or folk “boom” coincided with the crisis of the Communist Party and the first wave of what became known as “youth culture” or “the 60’s”. New markets opened up for folk music in Canada, drawing in new artists and presenters and forcing folk music to come to terms with itself as a commodity.