WFDU - Ron Olesko

Snail, I think you seriously are missing the point that Eric has trying to explain to you.

Yes I am but I'm not doing it deliberately. I have been involved in folk clubs and folk festivals for many years and I know that they are very different things.

He isn't saying that a folk club should be run like Womad, but look at what they are doing right and why it works.

They are doing what is right and what works for a folk festival. They are taking place over one weekend a year with multiple events in 1000 seat concert tents, booking acts that probably charge more to get out of bed than our annual turnover and spending similar sums on national advertising. They are employing professional organisers backed up by an army of volunteers.

Half a dozen volunteers run a weekly club in a single room with maximum capacity fifty. We finance ourselves from the raffle and singaround nights. You are just not comparing like with like.

If you are interested in growth and perpetuation, you need to look for new ideas.

I'm asking for new ideas but I'm not be offered anything practical.