We may not know much about folk music but we know what we like.Quote Snail.
Exactly
And as I said before I have never stopped anyone singing anything in a folk club.
we know what we like,I know what I like,and what I want to hear in a folkclub.
and that determines who I go to see at a folk club,I pays my money. I choose.
I do not choose to go and see any one singing John Lennon songs,nor would I choose to see Pavarotti,Westlife,Britney Spears,.
That is my choice BECAUSE I would not enjoy myself.
Folk Festival /club organisers determine who is booked and who is not.,
this may or may not take into account audience requests,depends on the organiser[I have never been booked at a certain club despite various people requesting me]Thats life.
By no stroke of the imagination could I be described as a Jazz Or a Rap performer,or an Opera Singer.and in my opinion[SUBJECTIVE]John Lennon is not a Folksinger,but a rock singer, and I would not pay money to see him[Ifhe were alive] or an impersonator, in a folk club.
40 years ago,maybe,but these days,other people excite me more.
now I am off to play some music[not rock].Dick Miles