"Jim, you took the opportunity of your little personal spat with Nick"
No personal spat with Nick - can't recall meeting him here before now - I was responding to his posting - since which, he appears to have gone awol.
Nor have I any argument with the Lewes Club, or any other club on the UK folk scene, except on the one issue - you chose to involve your club by claiming that your policy of encouraging non-singers to perform in public was club policy.
For me, the clubs are the public face of folk music; they should take the responsibility of presenting it at an acceptable level.
Jim Carroll