The last time I took a chance on an informal night out advertised as 'FOLK'
was getting on 6 - 10 years ago.

A great atmospheric old fashioned pub in Clevedon selling Thatchers Trad on tap.
The mrs and me were on a day out for our wedding anniversary,
had already spent the late afternoon in that pub,
when we noticed the poster for "Folk Night Tonight"

So we agreed, ok, we'll not bother with the last bus,
it's our anniversary, we'll treat ourselves to a very expensive taxi home after pub closing time.

Big mistake... there was one solitary hippy looking fiddler
who played a couple of pretty decent trad tunes to a completely indifferent smarmy looking clique,
before they elbowed him out the way to sing Beatles songs for the rest of the night,
strumming away a few basic beginners chords on their immaculate shiny high price tag acoustic guitars..

Sod that... the taxi home cost a fortune !!!

I'll stick to my 1970s Folk Rock CDs and whatever new stuff mudcatters suggest on youtube.