Although folk clubs are public they can have the atmosphere of a private club. I have enjoyed them for around 40 years. Singing, playing tunes, dancing Morris, organising barn dances and mummers plays and clubs of various kinds. I recognise what 'workingclassfolkie' says. Many clubs have a strange set of codes which to the outsider are difficult to understand. Sometimes an unwritten set of assumptions about the sorts of songs that are valued. Class is an aspect but not a simple one or the whole story. In some clubs the importance of working clas culture is made a high priorty and not always from club organisers who have a solid working class origin. Dose it matter? It does if it excludes.