Never thought I or anyone is indispensable!
As the old saying goes - put your hand in a bucket of water and when you take it out, the hole left is the amount you are indispensable!
The pity is that the 'novices' (hate that term but cannot think of another) suffer and some have left in the past for the same reason. Us old hands will just go to a different venue but they will most likely not bother for there is nowhere else they can play. They may not be good but they enjoy what they do and to me that is what folk music is about - participation. Met one in a music shop the other day who said he had stopped going because of the 'local'. Pity- nice fella.
I have other venues asking me to attend so I will alternate and watch progress.
Again, thanks for all your inputs to a guest.