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Peter Stockport Attracting Young Folk to Folk (50) RE: Attracting Young Folk to Folk 16 Nov 09


Matt it's called "For Folks Sake"
It's very succesful there's a facebook page here
http://www.facebook.com/forfolkssake
There's a good clip of Ember and the floor spots who are all "Young" and no one was patronised.
I saw Ember at Sidmouth and I squirmed on my seat as they were introduced as "Young People" They've been performing 10 years to my Knowledge--
No wonder "Young people" stay away when they get introduced that way regardless of whether they are 14 or 40.
I run The Midway folk club look here
Midway Folk Club
Like most folk clubs we have the odd person who is on the right side of thirty but look at the pics we're all old!
Not a "Young Person" in sight!
We can get up to 80 people on a good night, so it's not lack of popularity of the club- Young people attract young people.
We offer out free tickets to local youth groups so it's not like we don't try...
Peter


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