PERFORM was set up to ginger up the folk (song) circuit in the UK in whatever ways we could. We were trying to sort out good practices for folk clubs, good practices for performers and to find ways to increase audiences across the board. Among the things we achieved in the South East (where I was at the time) was a showcase of performers at the Bracknell folk festival and a "liven up the new year" tour in January and February one year where we went to a number of pubs in different areas and put on informal singing sessions.
It was also largely due to PERFORM that we were able to run so many benefit concerts for Nic Jones .. the news of his accident came on the first day of our conference in Manchester.

Anne (Lister)