I have a feeling that the Folk Club as such may have the same kind of future that Music Hall had before it, and the Glee Club before that

In other words it'll die off, and there'll be something else that replaces it and carries on some of the repertoire and some of the tradition.

That doesn't mean folk music will die off, but it'll be happening in different settings - probably ones which we already have.

There'll be sessions of one sort or another. There'll be programmes of concerts in theatres or halls. There'll be dances. And Ritual Dancers. And there'll be festivals of of variouskinds. And maybe other things that haven't emerged yet.

But the Folk Club with floor singers and residents and booked guests all squeezed into a room above a pub, I doubt if that'll continue once the generation that invented it has given up or passed on. It came out of a particular time, and particular circumstances. Like Music Hall. Like the Elizabethan Theatre. Like Mystery Plays. These things don't last for ever - and the moral of that is, cherish them while you've got them.