The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115388 Message #2481712
Posted By: Tim Leaning
01-Nov-08 - 12:59 PM
Thread Name: Folk Club Manners
Subject: RE: Folk Club Manners
Phew is it getting warm in here?
My personal experience of "folk clubs" is limited.
I have been to about 40 music venues of the kind where loud PA is not used.
I have once been made to feel less than welcome when I overheard the organiser say,in what I thought might be a derogatory way" oh its not traditional then?"
But even there at the end of the evening a very elderly gent who told me he was a club member of long standing said he had enjoyed my songs and that his wife particularily liked one of them and thanked us for turning up,would we please come agin if we got the chance.
All the others are brilliant and welcoming and accomodating and supportive.
They vary a lot in the way they organise the time available.
And I am not one who would sulk a the chance of listening to music instead of playing.
Some are more based on traditional old songs and tunes,some have a more mixed set of regular performers.
I have even been allowed to play at the Villans excellent club Faldingworth live.
The point I have so long windedly been trying to put is that manners in a folk club should be the same as they are in the rest of life.
seeing each other as equaly important and treating your fellow music lover with the respect you would wish them to show to your mum ,wife,daughter or yourself.
Its a shame, but although you can make the club the bastion of the music you prefer,the manners are going to be largely the same as those outside.