The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136900   Message #4048740
Posted By: Richard Mellish
26-Apr-20 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
Just to clarify: the "heading to 50 in a couple of years" for Herga was what Kitty said in 2011.

Herga started in 1963. I wasn't there, but I know because on Herga's 30th birthday I took a friend there who had been born in 1963 and it was also her 30th birthday.

A few years ago Herga was fading and the stalwarts who had been running it latterly decided to wind it up, but only a few months later it restarted under new management. So it has now been running almost continuously for 57 years, including currently in virtual mode.