Eric
All may be welcome, but trying to get the youngsters into a folk club is very difficult.

My approach is to get the youngsters in to sing and hopefully they will get mates and maybe parents along as well. In such a case tradition flies out the door in my book. The traditional singers will hopefully help and support these youngsters.

Strollin' played at my club last night and was very good and was liked by everybody. He doesn't sing pop songs, he sing folk songs. He is a very talented artist with his feet firmly on the ground. As to getting a lot of people to listen, that is absolute rubbish. He regularly plays to audiences of 20 - 30 poeple at small folk clubs. He is also very supportive of young artists. So I personally think that your comments about him are definately way off the mark. I for one value his support and influence very much.

Old Man - You go on believing what you want, but personally I think you are living in the past, and possibly one of the reasons, why folk clubs are having such problems getting yougsters in.