It might be easier to form an accurate judgement as to whether or not "Folk clubs are dying out", if people were to give some indication of the number of people currently attending these clubs mentioned above on a typical night, and in particular, compared with 10 or 20 years ago. If your club's been going for 10 or 20 years, are you getting smaller or larger audiences now than you were then ? Just to take one instance from the post immediately above - Rachel - how many of an audience constitutes a "thriving" club these days ? I've no axe to grind here, but am just genuinely curious.
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