the point is that folk clubs are vitally important,if nothing else as a link, a feeder a place where stagecraft can be learned before performing in an ART CENTRE.now that is only one aspect,folk music is a continuous stream,the club is an integral part of keeping alive and developing folk music , it is also a CLUB,[something a festival and an art centre is not]it helps to build up a strength in a local community,.
something I fear this government and other capitalist governments would rather disappear.
when communitys stand together ,it is more difficult for governments and big business to divide and rule.
The destruction of communitys has been brought about by two world wars,encouraging people to get in debt with huge mortgages,so they are afraid of losing their jobs.then relocating industry in the third world where labour and working conditions are cheap and poor respectively,whole communities are then forced to scatter and break up.Sheffield, teeside, the rhondda valley.it is important for communities to try to strengthen themselves folk clubs in my opiniondo this through the power of friendship and song.DickMiles