Faye's original post contained a substantive point which hasn't really been a addressed at all.

She saw a need for some sort of house organ for the British folk club scene. fRoots has never seen that as part of its remit, and I'd agree that if they have other things they'd rather do, that's their privilege.

I'm not sure that doing it on paper these days is the way to go, but a lot of the effort would be the same whether it were a print publication or a website. Either way it would need some sort of well-defined federation committed to sharing information.

Against: in several years of trying, nobody's managed to get together a Britain-wide listings resource for the folk club and session scene that actually works, let alone something with the added editorial content Faye was after.

Pro: it has worked in some related genres. "British Bluegrass News" does a good job for that area, albeit it's not published frequently, and "Box and Fiddle" covers the mostly-Scottish accordion-&-fiddle-club scene with a glossy monthly.

"Living Tradition" might be better able to take that on but I'm not too sure what their editorial priorities are at the moment, beyond simply surviving.

Maybe Faye could come back and rephrase the question, leaving fRoots out of it. How does she think what she's after could be realized? Who would do it, and what resources (for information, labour and money) could they call on?