Too much to read here but "the future belongs to the young. Post Covid or otherwise. Us old fogies are too set in our ways for any radical change. I accept change is not always for the best but it is change or die as far as live folk (or most other) music is concerned."

Perhaps a consolation for being old is that we won't be here when todays youth reign supreme, the place will be littered with cans and pizza boxes and we won't have to worry about it. Nor the absence of folk clubs.