We went to a folk club with our 2 kids a fine fiddler and a fine melodeon player, the artist on, was known to us and has done loads of work getting kids and young adults involved with folk music, whilst the room was filling up the three of them started playing a lady on guitar joined them and the audience was enraptured. After a while the organiser stood up at the front, clapped her hands like a school mistress, informed us we had come to a folk club and could we please start, to loud groans from the audience everything died down and she proceeded to sing a long mournfull ballad. At the interval she came and told us if we where to come again could we not bring the children as folk music was for adults. As we are from Yorkshire and this was in the South West it was not a problem.Our kids are still involved in folk music but remember this instance and they are not lovers of folk clubs if we tell them we are going to a folk club they laugh like mad and tell us not to take any children.
Keith