The dust is already swirling as the phoenix prepares to rise - Friday 13th Folk Club will transmutate as it rises from the ashes.
    Three members of the club: Edna Barker, Richard Sykes and Roy Hardacre have decided to continue the singers' nights on a monthly basis under a new name. For my part I have found a way to address the problem of giving a platform to lesser-known talent: I aim to put on an occasional concert with a "big-name" headline act, but will feature a paid support by performers of the type I would have liked to give gigs to in the past. To pay the support will bung an extra pound or two onto the ticket price but we have never been expensive enough for this to be so much of a problem anyway.
So - all things to all people eh? No chance; the moaners will soon find fault with some aspect of this, just watch this space.
All the best,
            Ray Black