It's a toss-up between Artisan and the Abbie Lathe group. Also Thomas Leeb, although that wasn't exactly a folk club.

And if compliments about someone's looks make you a lecher, then damn, the world is in trouble. Compliments do not mean that you're trying to get into the other person's underwear! Still, wait a few years and that problem will solve itself. ;-)

Graham.

(FWIW, the most fun I've had at a folk festival was the bellydancing workshops at Broadstairs, and it certainly wasn't simply because I was a lone bloke surrounded by several dozen dancing women of varying ages.)