Richard Bridge says "I think you need to decide whether you want a folk club (which may welcome other performers and in my experience most do) or a "contemporary music club" most of which I think regard traditional song with considerable suspicion, and while perhaps assisting in the survival of the notion of music as something in which people participate (which becomes doubtful as soon as PA turns up) does little even to assist in enabling people in understanding or participating in their own traditions (or roots) much less in the survivla of those roots or traditions."

In my opinion this is a rather narrow view. I hope the club will be broad enough to welcome both "traditional" folk and "contemporary folk". Since I do mainly traditional and Lynne and Ted's repertoires are also inclined towards trad. I doubt if we will open a "Contemporary Music Club" with narrow minds prejudiced against songs pre-1980.

Frank L.