Obvioulsy there is the Magpies Nest as counter example to the Folk Club = Old assumption. Also, I am 26 and me and my friend Katie (23) have just started a folk club in Deptford. The first one was last month. We got a really mixed crowd (just what we wanted) but a seriously healthy turn out of our peers who - as we suspected they might - absolutely went wild for Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham's shanties and Toby Bennet's clog dancing. It was *brilliant*! We caught the yooofs attention by also booking a lady from popular indie outfit Bat for Lashes ( Caroline Weeks who has done a stunning album of settings of the poems of Edna St Vincent Millay). We kept it cheap (£3 for students) enough that people would be willing to have a punt. There was a real sense of excitment and discovery... next up The Boat Band and Yo Zushi.... I think young people do like traditional music clubs --- they just haven't realised it yet!!