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Thread #166789   Message #4014095
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Oct-19 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
Fine if you live within reach of the few remaining
This is Wiki's estimate - as rliable as anything Wiki comes up with I suppoose but then again the numbers speak for themselves

The number of clubs began to decline in the 1980s, in the face of changing musical and social trends. But the decline began to stabilize in the mid-1990s with the resurgence of interest in folk music and there are now over 160 folk clubs in the United Kingdom, including many that can trace their origins back to the 1950s.[43]
Complacency is going to do as much further damages as is identity theft
Jim