When I was a teenager in the sixties and making my first tentative steps into the folk clubs I received encouragement, advice and constructive critisism from lots of people all of whom were considerably older than I was and I felt honoured by it - at least they thought I was worth encouraging. Now as the big 60 looms ever nearer and I am part of the organisation of a folk club it is always a pleasure to welcome youngsters to perform at our club either from the floor or as guests. Age difference was something that you didn't worry about back in the sixties and I don't see why it should be now.
Although we are a club that promotes traditional music and song I do hope that we don't present the forbidding image that seems to attach its self to traditionally based clubs. Please check out our web site www.tigerfolk.com and you'll see that we have just celebrated out sixteenth birthday with Damien Barber and Mike Wilson and that next month we have Chris Wood.