Last night we had a cracking session in the Tap & Spile (York), the vast majority of the performers were under thirty, nay 25, me and the boys hoisted the average age considerably, indeed I include those who turn up without "instruments" for a sing, taking jaqui c's point that folk music isn't about performing its taking part, I think that it is vacuous, petulant and of no relevance whether some one sounds like Nic Jones, does a Nic Jones arrangement or for that matter any one else's arrangement, if folk clubs are dying it will be because people will have forgotten or lost sight of the fact that people go to enjoy themselves not to be told what to enjoy, so, send the anorak to the charity shop and engage with people positively and be thankful that people are singing and playing the songs whosevers arrangement that might be.