My introduction to folk clubs was the Wellington in Weymouth. It closed when the people running it got married. They opened another at The Antelope in Wareham soon after. This ran for many years and even gave rise to the Wareham Folk Festival, alas also now defunct. The main problem with folk clubs in the Weymouth/Portland area is that there are not enough diehards to keep them going. You can only sing to empty chairs for so long. I now have my weekly 'fix'on Wednesday nights, at The New Star, on Portland. It is a 'come-all-ye' sing-around, for all comers of all abilities. You don't have to be Martin Carthy or Davy Spillane before you can perform in public. It is unfortunate that there are a few people in the folk fraternity who think you should. There is a happy medium between the mega stars and the dismal, to which a large proportion of closet musicians could and often do aspire. They just need a little more encouragement in the early stages. OK I have digressed a little, but it needs saying.