I ran a folk club for five years back when I lived in the UK. The vast majority of the booked performers were charming people without airs and graces and many stayed with us.

There were (as there always are) one or two arseholes and prima donnas (usually not the most talented performers). There was one particularly annoying individual (perhaps some might recognise him/her) who royally got up everybody's noses by EXPECTING to be booked as a right on a very regular basis (as mentioned by Guest, An Englishman Abroad) and got extremely shirty at a polite and reasoned refusal.

All in all though...mainly a very amenable genre.

Peace

moo