Dick

Are you reading the same topic as I am?

"Move with the times or the times will leave you behind" is my way of saying that if a lot of folk clubs want to shake off the steriotypical image that was portrayed earlier in this thread and appeal to a wider audience, they will have to market themselves in tune with the times or be left to wither and die on the vine, so to speak. Well run folk clubs would recognise this and act accordingly.
Increasingly, Arts Centres are hosting well run folk events because they are giving the paying customer what they want these days and can pay the artists a decent wage. You don't have to be affluent to afford them. Concessions are available so no one need be excluded and that includes the list that you, so condescendingly, supplied. Nor is the swigging of copious ammounts of affordable real ale a compulsory requirement for the enjoyment of the experience. If you don't move on - You'll be gone.