Neither do I Dave, but I have been told categorically that all the so called folkies who play at my club are not folk.

I get 40 to 60 people every other Friday and sometimes more. The club is healthy with a wide mixture of folk songs and new contemporary folk songs. Its all good stuff and just what the audience will listen to.

Every time I ask people why they don't like folk clubs, is because their understanding is that its full of old men singing boring 30 verse unacompanied songs. I can't change that, but hopefully the people who come to my venue get to appreciate lots of divers songs, some that you think is folk and some that you don't think is folk.

The clubs that will die are the ones that won't change, becuase the club will die as the members die.