I have read this thread from the start. I join in having had a weekend away.

I believe folk artists should be paid a decent wage, and I believe that club organisers should charge appropriately.

We get our folk music on the cheap and it is treated contemptuously by the mainstream media - at least in part as a consequence. I remember many many years ago a BBC producer being given the chance to give the Watersons a spot on a show. They were at that time one third of the price of the Spinners. "They can't be much good" he opined and promptly booked the Spinners.

I doubt if things have changed much.