Captain, you seem to have a very different model of the organisation of a folk club from ours. There is no one person who is responsible for paying the guest and all members of the committee take their turn at being MC for the evening and run it as they see fit. I can't really discuss the details of how we pay our guests without revealing confidential contractual arrangements.

I can say that we see our role as arranging guests for our audience, not arranging audiences for our guests.

the fact that i would allow a low standard for floor singers to sing,does not mean that they are not open to improvement[as we all are, myself included],
a lot of the singers I would allow on,would benefit from going to workshops.

No problem with that at all but if anyone chooses not to go to a workshop that is up to them.