Hey Countess Richard
Somebody just posted this in the Folk Mafia thread. Was one of them you in the shiny suit running the club. I say that becuase with your attitude, thats the way the folk clubs are going. Get a life and encourage people in irrespective of it is Trad or contemporary. I certainly wont run my folk club as a purely traditional event, and I will allow yougsters to show us old fogies what they are made of. Sometimes people grow old and live in a cuckoo world. You sound just like that. Anyway this was the post.

Once in Chicago I got hired to perform in a club, union scale. Went to the club. No one there but a couple of guys wearing shiny suits and gold rings with big diamonds. They kept to them selves, so did I. Did three sets, got paid. Did this for three or four weeks. Came to the club one evening. It had a new name. Same guys. Did my thing, got paid. This went on for three or four weeks. Came to the club one evening, it had yet another name. I played in five or six clubs that year, all in the same location. Never could figure out what was going on.

CB