In the Manchester area, I can go to a folk club any night of the week I choose. If I visit my sister in York at the weekend, the situation is the same. When I went on a training course in Milton Keynes, I just put Folk Club Milton Keynes in google and found a terrific little session in The Cannon, Newport Pagnell for that night. I'm in Liverpool tomorrow night and there is a session listed on Folk Orbit very close to where I will be. Coincidence, or indicative of a scene that, rather than collapsed, is flourishing? I know where my vote lies.