"For an example of how to work your socks off, and to make it work - consult Paul's (Banjiman's) efforts over the last few months on these threads and elsewhere.
He cannot be faulted for the amount of energy he expends in letting anyone and everyone know about an event."

Hi Betsy....is that a polite way of telling me I am over selling?!!

There are other venues that do well (I admit to stealing their ideas!) Les does an excellent job with Faldingworth Live!, Roland also does anexcellent job at The Black Swan in York.....and there are many other examples, I'm sure.....they are just the ones that spring to mind.

The key common characteristic that I can see is passion and active advertising .......that means via the interweb (forums such as this, MySpace invites and bulletins....not just a passive web site) as well as flyers.... handed out at other folk events and to others who will hand them out for you as well. This is in addition to more local papers and radio stations.....

In my expereince not all folk events do this effectively.......there is (not surprisingly) a direct relationship between good advertising and good attendance..... if you don't tell people something is happening, how do they know?

By the way....
KFFC is back on September 20th with Roger Davies and
Wendy Arrowsmith with
Blind Summat!

Expect to see a flyer in a club near you soon......

Cheers

Paul