Someone mentioned "The Ark" in Ann Arbour, Michigan as having about 300 live shows a year. Wow! Must be a great folk club. I'd like to hear about some more great folk club/coffeehouses in the USA, Canada, even the UK...specially those that would be friendly to modern singer-songwriters of a folkie sort, rather than being too exclusively trad in nature. I'm figuring places where you would hear fine acoustic players doing their own original material, with a few trads and covers mixed in, maybe.