Most folk clubs I've ever been in you couldn't get a full set of drums in anyway, let alone have the time to set them up. The very first folk band I played in about 1968 we had a scout drummer with a single drum occasionally with snare attached but we managed to get him to drop that, then later in the 80s we had a full kit drummer which caused 2 problems, one nobody wanted to be in front of the drums and we all tried to keep as far away as possible. The other was many of the dancehall stages sloped and throughout the course of the evening the kit migrated slowly towards the front. When I took over running of the band we had no drummer but by then we had midi and/or keyboards which provided perfectly adequate rhythm.