why should it follow,that because someones is tipped at a club,that organisers would then feel that they could get performers for less,that rather casts organisers in a bad light. are organisers untrustworthy?,in my experience they are not .


I don't think it's a question of how trustworthy employers are - more of a natural economic consequence which, at a glance, seems to have happened in other 'tipping areas'. For example, it is widely assumed that waiters' wages are disproportionately low because it is customary to tip them. Personally I think the majority of folk performers' fees are low as it is; I wouldn't like to see them get any lower. I'd hazard a guess that folk music is already the cheapest form of live music there is.