Many years ago, a local folk club had to stop for a short while whilst the pub was refurbished, and re-launched themselves.

Now, the club had been dying on its feet. Rightly or wrongly, they decided the term folk club had stereotype connotations. SO.. they used the term acoustic music nights. [...] Fairly full most weeks.

I still to this day haven't decided if it was changing the word folk to acoustic, (the intended change) or whether the possibly inadvertent dropping of the word club did it.

It couldn't just be that the refurbishment had something to do with it?

It doesn't matter much what you call yourselves if you're meeting in a grubby depressing shithole.