The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #106305   Message #2199173
Posted By: Folkiedave
21-Nov-07 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: The Future of Folk Clubs
Subject: RE: The Future of Folk Clubs
Indeed Dick and many is the good night I have had there too. The Grapes had two or three clubs at one time. There was also the legendary Highcliffe where I saw Planxty and Billy Connolly with the Humblebums and to be honest many more. There was a club up at the Cross Scythes at Dore which used to be full of the students from the domestic science college and another at Wentworth College with a similar attraction. Then there was that all female college in Derbyshire. But I digress.

I didn't really move to Sheffield until the very late sixties having spent my "formative" folk years first in Manchester and then in Hull.

Unfortunately Dick I am up to the eyeballs at the moment - the problem is that we know what is needed, venue, guest, artists, etc. but we have no-one to do it. Shame but there you are.

And anyway I have had enough of that over the past 30 years or so. Radio show comes first until I get that right.