This is like wandering into an Alice in Wonderland world. Traditional Folk music, handed down, unaccompanied, local, continues to exist on record and has a body of literature. It will lie low until people who want to go out for the evening prefer it to Streets of London. It still goes on in homes, round the odd pub fire that hasn't become a surf and turf eaterie and so on. 'Folk Clubs' were an artificial construct of the folk revival where young people could flirt to the sound of Scarborough Fair by someone who sounded vaguely like Art Garfunkel with the flu. They have never, to my knowledge, been a substitute for an authentic folk tradition.

I still say you can't hurt the music.