Well my reason for first going to a folk club was when I heard that Andy Irvine was the guest at the Tree Inn Folk Club in Stratton, near Bude, in about 1991-ish. We started going to the guest nights quite regularly after that, and within a couple of years I was playing a tune or two there with my kids, who were far better than me in those days. The club was run by John and Cheryl Maughan who always managed to get amazing guests, generally every other week, the likes of Chris Wood and Andy Cutting, the House Band, Dick Gaughan, Vin Garbutt, Liam O'Flynn, Ron Kavana, Martin Carthy, Davy Steele, Flook, Sileas, the Barely Works, Roy Bailey and many more. But for the encouragement and support of that folk club I wouldn't have got into traditional music and would have missed out on decades of fun playing it. The club collapsed in the mid-90s after a move away from the Tree that never really worked, but John and Cheryl carried the torch onward in Boscastle and we kept the music going at the Tree in the form of a session, a bit eclectic at times but still well in keeping. I outgrew the folk club but remain eternally grateful to it!