Alive, Alive-O!

As many have already written here, the clubs may go; but, let's face it--they are a fairly recent innovation anyway, and have become something of an 'establishment' that probably ultimately is more of a hindrance than a help to the folk process. Not that I don't enjoy a good, comfortable folk club myself from time to time.

And I think they will come back periodically, waxing and waning like interest in most anything else that's worthwhile. And playing in the house with friends is (I sure hope) never going to be completely replaced with lone individuals hacking away at their keyboards on some version of "garageband" adapted to folk music, generating their own hootenannies.

And folk music itself--was it Dylan who said something to the effect that it is too weird to die?

There are always going to be new people who will be drawn to the mysterious light that shimmers inside great folk music!