I don't think folk clubs are dying. I'm a Londoner. In London we have: Magpie's Nest, The Goose Is Out, The Local (crouch end), The Basket Club (Brixton), Folk at the Moon (Herne Hill), Easycome Acoustic (Nunhead), Lantern Society (Farringdon), perennial activities at Cecil Sharp House, singers and guests nights in Islington, Tooting, Blackheath, Orpington...

thriving, if you ask me!