Folk Clubs and attracting younger people

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 11:12 PM

The same thing can probably be said for the so-called big names of the world of barbershop quartet singing, or polo, or orchid cultivation, or medieval jousting, or perhaps hundreds of other activities, though each of them may be central to the lives of some people.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 05:33 AM

Al is correct, most of the population have never heard of the so called big names of the folk world, that is not offensive but factual

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 05:30 AM

well the music industry regards folk music as very small time. i was with a medium sized record company for some time and it was an eye opener to me. i'd spent a lot of time on the folkscene.... i thought the sun shone out of my heroes bums. it was a shock to find people with so little regard for them.

small time was not meant as disparaging - just descriptive.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 04:32 AM

'Big Al' said:
"Froots have got their bit of the action - hobnobbing with the small time superstars of the folkworld. and we've got ours. we're the peasantry, we know our place."

Speak for yourself, but don't include the whole of Mudcat - I have seen posts on here from people I regard as more than "small time" stars.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 07:02 PM

i suppose Froots have got their bit of the action - hobnobbing with the small time superstars of the folkworld. and we've got ours. we're the peasantry, we know our place.

theres no need for resentment or unpleasantness between us. folk music has a role for us both.

as Don Corleone says to Solozzo - as my business interests don't conflict with yours.....

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 06:16 PM

Thank you Vic.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 03:33 PM

On 13 Dec 14 - 07:06 AM I wrote:-
"Talking of fRoots as we have been, here is the BIFF cartoon from the new edition I received yesterday. For some reason, the photo used in the last panel looks very familiar...."

If you click on that link. you will get a message from Facebook saying-
Sorry, something went wrong.
We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

No, Facebook, this is less than the truth. You have seen fit to block the sharing of this cartoon for some reason. But as with most things on the internet, it it possible to get around such things, as you can see by clicking here.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 09:31 PM

It's not impossible to attract younger people to a session with traditional folk songs, just very difficult. A unique venue in the New York City area has been functioning for more than 5 years and the average age is below 30, with 30-40 people attending each monthly session. It's called the Exceedingly Good Song Night and is located in the back room of an East Village cafe, and is hosted by Ken Schatz. I get to attend maybe once a year but I'm always amazed with the energy generated in these sessions. Here's a link to their Facebook page: click here for a good time!

I'm hoping to be there again on Sunday, January 4, 2015.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,Richard Dalton
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 04:00 PM

I agree.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: TheSnail
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 12:34 PM

I can't say I'm worried about Ian Anderson's opinion of Mudcat but I'm intrigued by -
Not a 'session' where the players play for themselves and ignore civilians. Not a folk club where you have to sit in rows and people 'Shhhh' if you dare talk. Not a ceilidh where you're often made to feel like an outcast if you don't want to dance but just enjoy the music.

Give him his due, he's prepared to speak his mind without worrying about how many potential subscribers he alienates.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 11:39 AM

For anyone who didn't follow another GUEST's link "This may be of interest," here's its description of this forum:

... the Folkistanis on that bonkers internet message board called Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 07:06 AM

Talking of fRoots as we have been, here is the BIFF cartoon from the new edition I received yesterday. For some reason, the photo used in the last panel looks very familiar....

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,Bignige
Date: 13 Dec 14 - 06:14 AM

I have always found good performers with good technique will always win over an audiences. The problem is, you have to sit through a lot of mediocre rubbish before you get to one, particularly in the Folk world.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,punkfolrocker
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 03:11 PM

.. then he should definitely nip back to Weston for a few ciders in "The Workies" on a weekend..

That'd give him a back to his roots reality check sense of a proper job informal community focused venue...

They get top agency acts too.. the 'Billy Fury' was at least as the good
as the one you'd pay 20 quid to see at the posh Playhouse...

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:55 PM

...that Ian bloke needs to shake some of that metropolitan sophisticate snootiness off

Funnily enough, that's more or less what he said of himself when he moved back to Brissle (as he seems to insist on calling it) about four years ago.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:49 PM

.. one more vote for Bedlam and gawping at the bonkers folk for perverse entertainment value...✔😏

... that Ian bloke needs to shake some of that metropolitan sophisticate snootiness off
and come back here from time to time for a good robust earthy laugh
and a bit of mudddy rough and tumble amongst the gibbering foaming at the mouth hideous wretches...😜

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:43 PM

CS, I think I can give you the answer to that, he wants to publicise his site.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 01:49 PM

I too am unsure why the editor of Froots feels the need to bash bonkers old Mudcat. As a marginally 'younger' person (or at least I was when I first arrived here...) I've enjoyed this place pretty much FOR it's bonkersness and tended to avoid the rather more sterile atmosphere of Froots. If I wanted to know serious stuff about folk music without the aggro, I'd probably head over to a more academic forum, such as the Tradsong forum that led me here in the first place.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 12:37 PM

Iplay in folk clubs fairly regularly, my experience is that is rare for people to be made to shut up ,most people that go enjoy listening to the performer are respectful of the music and do not need to be told to shut up.
Vic, how many times have you told people to sssh in your folk club over the last 40 years, please answerr , if you do not I will assume you have never had to.
most of the ceilidhs i have been to, have been in the proximity of a bar., however i live in ireland, the polace where ceilidhs originate, ceili or ceildh is a gaelic word

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 11:58 AM

"We should be falling over ourselves in praise of him for what he has achieved."

Vic, you still don't understand the basic ethos of Mudcat. My making a living from folk music Anderson must be the spawn of the Devil!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 09:46 AM

Once again, Jack, I find that I cannot agree with comments that you make about fRoots so without getting into a slanging match with you which I won't do, could I make some points about your last post?
You seem to find his description of the Mudcat community insulting when you write:-

More unfairly than his comment about you, me and everybody else here in that review? I don't think so.
I must ask you not to include me in the list of those who feel that they are being treated unfairly by that review and I think that you ought to let others in the Mudcat community speak for themselves, Some at least seem to recognise Ian's description. Howard Jones just above talks about clubs where "you are made to sit in rows and shut up." Overall, I would say that there are many clubs that bear a resemblance to this.

I would agree about the writing….
Good. A point of agreement.

…..the design is nothing special…..
Well, yes; again, I'd agree, but let's compare it with its direct competitor Songlines. Flashy garish and eye-catching design but the standard of writing is pretty abysmal. Short pieces that read like puffs written by a publicist which seem to centre on the meeting between writer and artist with little analysis of the music.

…… (or wasn't when I last saw a copy)……
Well, I'm afraid that you are giving yourself away here, Jack. I did suspect this with your comments in a previous post about Madagascar. How often and how regularly do you read fRoots carefully, Jack? Could it be that you are expressing opinions on something that you don't know well (says a man that has all 380 copies stored in boxes on shelves by his computer and finds then a hugely useful reference source.)

But I detest the narrowness of his perspective - the only stuff he cares about is what you can buy as a commodity…… I just checked Jimmy McHugh, probably the most influential musician ever in the Irish music scene in Scotland, but who never made any recordings. Not a mention. If you're not a product (and hence a source of advertising revenue) you don't count for Froots.
By amazing co-incidence the Jan/Feb 2015 issue just dropped through the letter box as I am typing this, so let's test the validity of these statements with reference to what this new issue contains -
•        Cover article is on the 40th anniversary of a wonderful dance band, The Old Swan Band – This is supported by a 1/2 page advert for all recent Wildgoose releases but this is not special to this issue. Doug Bailey feels the need to advertise his releases on a regular basis.
•         Centenary of the birth of Bob Copper – no supporting advert.
•        Ibibo Sound System from Nigeria – no supporting advert.
•        Sam Sweeney & Andy Cutting's new outfit Leverett – no supporting advert.
•        Pete Coe & Alice Jones – no supporting advert.
•        Profile on folk/rock producer Sandy Roberton – no supporting advert.
•        Smaller features on Norwegian festival, new librarian at Cecil Sharp House, traditional band from Co. Clare, Joe Boyd on Copyright – you've guessed it - no supporting adverts.
•        And finally the current cover on a new South London traditional folk band, Stick The Wheel, who are excellent and if the world is fair should make a big name for themselves. They haven't even got and album out to advertise.
fRoots is not perfect. Ask Ian Anderson how quick I am to bend his ear if there is something I don't like or if there is a mistake or if I feel standards are falling, but overall I feel that over 35 years the man has produced an amazing variety of high quality articles and photo features and has never once missed a deadline. We should be falling over ourselves in praise of him for what he has achieved.
Let me mention also, Jack, how articles in fRoots come about; I have written quite a lot for them so I should know. The editor is not in a position to commission articles. He has to wait until his writers contact him and give a yea or nay to their suggestions. In my case he rarely says no and if he does, it is always for a good reason. So if there is nothing about Jimmy McHugh (lovely musician, in my opinion, though its years since I heard him) it's because no-one has suggested the name to him. Tell you what, Jack, contact Ian and say that you would like to write something on Jimmy McHugh. That's what I do when I hear someone that I think is worth hearing more about.
….. and I'm still confused about Islington.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 09:27 AM

I can't think of a single regular ceilidh within reach of me where you can listen to the music in the bar. All the venues have separate catering areas with at least one set of doors between them and the hall.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 09:00 AM

I have been to plenty of ceilidhs where non-dancers were harried and bullied into making up a set, while the other dancers had to wait in their already formed sets until enough unwilling participants were dragged onto the floor to make up the required number - and sometimes too many would eventually volunteer so that yet another incomplete set formed, and the painful process had to be gone through yet again.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 07:05 AM

"I found myself wondering why this is so unusual, in this country anyway, and wishing that there were lots more of these. Not a 'session' where the players play for themselves and ignore civilians. Not a folk club where you have to sit in rows and people 'Shhhh' if you dare talk. Not a ceilidh where you're often made to feel like an outcast if you don't want to dance but just enjoy the music. Not a gig where as a performer you feel duty bound to entertain."
lets deal with the three points, one, ceildhs, this is complete nonsenseat most ceilidhs you can enjoy the music without dancing, you can sit or stand at the bar listen to the music without danicning and without being made to fell an outcast .
2, Sessions, you can attend sessions and enjoy the music without being ignored people are busy playing music,the non musicians are sitting listening,no audience member goes to a session to ask the musicians about their lives they go there to hear music being played with commitment, so another inaccurate statment from Anderson.
3. Folk clubs, it is very rare fror people to sshh other audience members because most folk club audiences know the folk club protocol , another inaccurate staement from Anderson, in fact a triple whammy of codswallop

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,Howard Jones
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 05:48 AM

It strikes me that Mudcat can get pretty bonkers at times, which perhaps is part of its charm although it can get frustrating at times.

More to the point, the venue Ian describes in his fRoots editorial sounds much like many of the folk clubs I used to attend - far more than the 'sit in rows and shut up' type.

I'm not sure I understand his comment "Not a gig where as a performer you feel duty bound to entertain". I sure Topette were very conscious of their obligation to entertain, but are skilled enough to do this in a relaxed and informal way which helped to create the ambience he enthuses about.

The question is why these venues no longer exist. In my limited experience the clubs seem to have evolved into singarounds of variable quality or mini-concerts which don't involve the audience, and where you are made to sit in rows and shut up. Neither greatly appeal to me.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 04:40 AM

Maybe the phrase should be "They don't call it a singers night. They call it Karaoke". Singers night is generally a misnomer as most people at most singers nights I have been to also play an instrument. Most often the guitar. At a Karaoke night the performers are just singers! OK, they are accompanied by an electronic soundtrack but they are still purely singers rather than singer/instrumentalists and at least they are not usually intent on a 10 minute intro to a five minute song or giving the audience the benefit of their innermost feelings. I have never done Karaoke but I find it pretty absurd and elitist the way that those who do are sneered at by the 'real' singers :-(

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 04:16 AM

"So what's so misfortunate about Weston Super Mare".
weston super mud, a great place for mud music and mud roots music no doubt.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Johnny J
Date: 12 Dec 14 - 02:52 AM

I've not subscribed to folk magazines for a few years now although I bought A "Living Tradition" yesterday as there was a particular article I wished to read.

I find that I can keep myself up to date online these days and even read much of the magazine contents up there.

As an example of what is considered good "product" in Froots, here's a link to their charts for this week...

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/charts/

There are one or two interesting things there but the bulk of it has nothing much to do with folk or traditional music as I know it or even "world music". Some of the albums are several years old too.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 07:26 PM

I'd imagine that he is rightly and fairly fed up with Mudcat, Jack, for the huge number of occasions that his name is slagged off and dragged through the mud of Mudcat, often very unfairly.

More unfairly than his comment about you, me and everybody else here in that review? I don't think so.


People seem to object to his taking a broad view of folk, traditional and roots music but the quality of design and writing is far superior to anything else in this field

I would agree about the writing - the design is nothing special (or wasn't when I last saw a copy). But I detest the narrowness of his perspective - the only stuff he cares about is what you can buy as a commodity.


Think of the all the outstanding talents in the folk and traditional scene in the UK and then check here to see if they have been covered in fRoots. The chances are that they will have been.

I just checked Jimmy McHugh, probably the most influential musician ever in the Irish music scene in Scotland, but who never made any recordings. Not a mention. If you're not a product (and hence a source of advertising revenue) you don't count for Froots.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: TheSnail
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 07:13 PM

But they don't call it a folk club. They call it karaoke night.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:49 PM

I am far less prescriptive about what constitutes a "proper" folk club than a lot of people here but I would draw the line at including karaoke.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:25 PM

Folk clubs are very popular and plentiful where I live, and they're usually packed, mostly with fairly young people. But they don't call it a folk club. They call it karaoke night.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 06:12 PM

"exaggerated generalisation" !!!!!??????

So what's so misfortunate about Weston Super Mare,
above and beyond any other Tory dominated provincial shithole in the United Kingdom....

It might be the arse end of the west country, but despite or because of all the social problems
it's a very actively musical town...

Admittedly, I don't like most of the x factor style of music the current generation make there..
but that's beside the point...

Back in my day it was well prominent on the punk and heavy metal map..

And an obscure folk reissue CD lable "Wooden Hill Recordings" apparently used to be based in the town centre..

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 05:12 PM

Vic, you have not answered the question, you ran a folk club for over forty years, did you ssh people?Is Ians description a truth or an exaggerated generalisation, please answer.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:39 PM

I have always liked Ian's enthusiasm and openness to new and interesting musical experiences. 

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:36 PM

It's Anderson's day job so there are enough punters buying the magazine. Probably a bloody sight more than look at this site. 

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:32 PM

My reaction when I read Ian Anderson's piece was very much like Vic Smith's. I have always liked Ian's enthusiasm and openness to new and interesting musical experiences.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:29 PM

Vic,
he is rarely discussed on mudcat,because like Pooter in The Diary of a Nobody, he is inconsequential and of little interest. I mean just look at these stupid generalisations, i quote
"I found myself wondering why this is so unusual, in this country anyway, and wishing that there were lots more of these. Not a 'session' where the players play for themselves and ignore civilians. Not a folk club where you have to sit in rows and people 'Shhhh' if you dare talk. Not a ceilidh where you're often made to feel like an outcast if you don't want to dance but just enjoy the music. Not a gig where as a performer you feel duty bound to entertain."
I mean whats this crap about ignoring "civilians" he is very cleverly trying to insinuate that people who enjoy playing music in sessions are somehow part of an army, and then we have shite about performers feeling duty bound to entertain, good performers enjoy entertaining, that is what performance is about., and then this crap generalising about folk clubs.
Vic, you ran a folk club for many years do you think this anti folk club generalised drivel is a correct description? please answer honestly,
   in my opinion folk clubs are places where people go to listen specifically to a certain kind of music, they do not go there to treat it as wallpaper music or inconsequential background music, to treat lyrics as inconsequential background drivel shows a lack of respect.,
you see Anderson contradicts himself, on the one hand he appears to not like the fact that presumably he went to a session and got no attention and went unrecognised[ IAN.. fame is ephemeral] and that the musicians were according to him ignoring the civilans and not entertaining, on the other hand he complains about gigs where people entertain, it seems like Ian Anderson is difficult to please.
Could it be that he has the misfortune to come from Weston Super Mare

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:13 PM

There are really enough Madagascan music fans in Islington to keep them going?

So you know that fRoots is full of articles about Madagascar, do you. Jack? I read it every month but there hasn't been an article on the fascinating music of that island for a long, long time.
Ask yourself if that comment is a] informed and b] fair.
.....and why Islington?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Vic Smith
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 04:05 PM

Jack Campin -
"What is wrong with the guy that he can't write an appreciative review without starting it with a sideswipe at Mudcat?"

I'd imagine that he is rightly and fairly fed up with Mudcat, Jack, for the huge number of occasions that his name is slagged off and dragged through the mud of Mudcat, often very unfairly. People seem to object to his taking a broad view of folk, traditional and roots music but the quality of design and writing is far superior to anything else in this field and he is enormously encouraging to emerging young talent.
Think of the all the outstanding talents in the folk and traditional scene in the UK and then check here to see if they have been covered in fRoots. The chances are that they will have been.
All you mention from that article was "a sideswipe at Mudcat"; what about the fact that he had stumbled on a different way of presenting traditional music and was enthused by it and wanted to share it with people.
What struck me when I read that editorial in the magazine was when he wrote "There was a remarkable age range, from 20-somethings to 70-somethings, and they seemed to enjoy dancing – or sitting – with each other." and I thought, "I wish I had been there!"

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 03:42 PM

QUOTE
There are really enough Madagascan music fans in Islington to keep them going?
/QUOTE

It's Anderson's day job so there are enough punters buying the magazine. Probably a bloody sight more than look at this site.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 01:36 PM

Agreed with Jack!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 12:00 PM

The Ian Anderson Froots editorial that GUEST linked to is a bit weird. What is wrong with the guy that he can't write an appreciative review without starting it with a sideswipe at Mudcat?

I wouldn't have considered doing the same about Froots, but mainly because I thought they'd vanished up their own arse years ago. There are really enough Madagascan music fans in Islington to keep them going?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST,Bignige
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 11:53 AM

I would agree that young people are as keen as ever to make music. This may be a little controversial but whatever you may think about Simon Cowell and his X Factor and BGT, it has fired an interest in all people, particularly young people to perform. The problem is where do Folk Clubs fit into that? they should benefit, but it seems they don't. Why is that?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 11:03 AM

GSS....it may well disappear, or at least atrophy to a small "stump", but I'm not necessarily too worried about that.

I remember in the 60s a lot of pubs had pianos in them and quite often you'd hear impromptu singing sessions as someone started bashing the keys. They disappeared by the early 70s, and I suspect a lot of the older folk here were in the "young guard" then who were actively trying to do something different to gathering around a piano singing "my old man said follow the van", and the nascent folk club members of the period weren't too worried about bar pianos gradually dying out.

What I was taking issue with was the idea that young people these days are "passive consumers" rather than active participants when what I see around me is something very different, with as many young people as ever making and enjoying live music.

Folk clubs as such, and even most folk festivals, may eventually be subsumed into different ways of live music being propagated, and may even become a sub-genre of "something else"....but that's change for you!

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 10:05 AM

Rob, but in my opinion it is a small minority who are organising festivals or folk events., that indicates to me that they do not understand that without them organising events be they folk clubs or festivals the scene will disappeear.

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Will Fly
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 09:10 AM

It is - but Ian also makes the mistake of assuming that all session players ignore "civilians", as he calls them, and he wasn't so snarky about folk clubs when I used to book him for the BBC Folk Club ("Clanfolk") back in the late '60s... :-)

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 09:00 AM

This may be of interest?

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 05:33 AM

I think folk clubs are evolving into something else. Not sure what it is or what it is called yet! While it may be true that a folk club of the old style may not attract younger people, this new mutation is attracting them in droves. Trouble is, with me being an old doderer, I do not know where it is... :-)

Subject: RE: Folk Clubs and attracting younger people
From: Will Fly
Date: 11 Dec 14 - 05:13 AM

Bugger! Did I really start playing the guitar in 1864? Mmm... feels like it...