Yesteryear's folk mecca, Greenwich Village of NYC has now moved east by 400 or so miles to the US singer/songerwriten haven/hub of the country. Boston/Cambridge. The Boston/Cambridge area has held on since the 60's as a mini Greenwich Village East for many yrs & the folk scene here has been transformed from what was a hotbed of folk Trad moving towards contemporary folk & has now been way over shadowed by neo-folkies, accoustic & singer/songerwriters music. There's better than 200 folk venues within I'd guess an hour or so drive of the city. There's plenty of radio programs that deal with what ever you choose to call the genre or flavor of the month. There's house concerts coming out your ying & different kinds of sessions nightly coming out your yang. Depending on your flavor you could spend a couple months hitting a different session each nite & never hitting the same place twice. You could do the same thing trying to track down all the "open mic's" or "hoots" but that'd take you a yr. No telling how many of those there are within the same 1 hour or so drive of the city. The closest here in the states to Boston/Cambridge area that I know of would be the San Francisco/Berkley/Oakland or the Bay area. I'd say that they're a bit more folkie & a bit less singer/songwrtiter than Boston/Cambridge area though, choose your weapons carefully.

I don't think NYC has close to the choices offered by the the two I mentioned. Maybe some of our NYC catter's could pipe in & prove me wrong. It certainlly would be nice be know that there's a much stronger what ever folk community there. I do believe there's a small very solid die hard core of tradies there though.

Sorry, I can't say about overseas.

Just one man's opinion

Barry