Well, it's true that some people do tend to define the term Folk Club according their own experience, but this is not always sufficient when looking at the national picture.

Seems like there are too many folk club theorists dancing on the head of a pin here, if you ask me. It'll be "I ain't never seen a horse running one" any minute now. I still think my basic ground rules hal a dozen or so posts above match how most people understand things. Especially as to be a "club" implies having members and mostly only those in the central model I suggested above have those.

Not that I'd join any club that would have me as a member, to quote Groucho Marx.