The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63530   Message #1034408
Posted By: George Papavgeris
13-Oct-03 - 02:33 AM
Thread Name: ingredients for a good folk club !
Subject: RE: ingredients for a good folk club !
"And you are right too", Robin, as the rabbi said in "Fiddler on the Roof". Every good thing has its form of travesty - the benevolent dictator is mirrored by "the bxxxxrd who does what he/she wants", the committee has the clique as its caricature, the humble floorsinger has the show-off who (according to the rest)should have their instrument ceremoniously burned or mouth taped; and the attentive audience has the group of loudmouths that want to continue their conversation come what may.
And so we come full circle to the truth at the bottom of it all, as stated by Hovering Bob above:
It's about the people, really. Get them right, and you're off on the path to success. Get them wrong, and you might as well shut the club now and spare yourself the agony.
And the biggest prize of all goes to those amongst us who know - really know - in which of those categories we belong.