Hey, Faye - why bother with folk clubs? You'll be caught between the devil of those who don't want you and the deep blue sea of those who don't need you. The sense I get is that, for better or worse, most folk clubs are satisfied with how they are. More than that, suggestions, ideas, comments and so on are sometimes taken as "evidence" of an anti-folk club agenda (my own agenda is parallel rather than anti - I like singarounds/singers nights but would rather see a paying gig in a mainstream venue rather than a club). The folk club scene is probably about where it can be and where it wants to be. The service to musicians might be in finding/building up a network of non-folk club nights for them to play at. This is not said with any antipathy towards clubs, but in recognition that not all of them want to put on guests and those who do sometimes seem to want to stick to what they are already familiar with. With the usual exceptions, of course, before anyone shouts at me...