I think we need to be clear on what the problem is. It certainly isn't that nobody under 30 is going to folk clubs anywhere, or even that nobody under 30 is doing the old stuff. Some of the performers I saw last night looked distinctly age-deprived - and that includes the bloke who stopped the show with his rendition of Spancil Hill.

Where there is an imbalance, in my experience, is in the audience in the proper sense - the regular punters who don't perform. I don't think that's a 'folk' problem - I just think it's hard to get people to come out & listen to live music in any numbers, and it's that much harder with younger people.