Why not just go play at folk clubs that welcome contemporary folk music, which includes very nearly all of them?

Just like almost everyone else has said, John, and most people are in complete agreement, including myself. But the whole premise of this thread is that folk clubs are guarded by some sort of Folk Police who will not allow any new music and frown severely upon anyone who dare have any fun. I know it isn't like that. You know it isn't like that. Everyone that goes to folk clubs regularly knows that. But for some reason there is a faction who think that folk music needs to be 'occupied' by something else. Go figure as our American friends would say.

Cheers

DtG