Are we on the old chestnut of "what's a singaround/tune session, what's a paid performance, and what's a folk club?"

CR, if your definition of a folk club is purely a paid performance, possibly with unpaid performers opening for the kudos/experience/fun, then I think you're right. But if your definition of a folk club is any public singing/playing, then I think you're liking the music but not the means of transmission which is why people are still singing it today.

Any chance on clarification, otherwise this might just keep going round in a kind of circle of flame...?

Graham.