I agree with Pip's 28 Dec 09 - 03:17 PM posting above, except for the terminology. Most of the "folk clubs" that I have attended over several decades, and all of those that I have attended at all regularly, have been closer to what Pip describes as a "singaround".

If I hear "mostly originals or cover versions, some blues, some C&W and a smidgen of trad" I won't go there a second time.

Richard