The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116964   Message #2523377
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
23-Dec-08 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: Why folk clubs are dying
Subject: RE: Why folk clubs are dying
I've just come home from one of my regular "BULLSESSIONS" at the Bull in Snodland.

We had a mix of performers ranging from twenty to myself at sixty seven.

We had singer songwriters with material to make any folk club organiser want to hear more. We had traditional folk, sixties and seventies contemporary, and newly composed, in roughly even measure.

It was the best evening we have had, BAR NONE.

Folk clubs dying?.....B*****ks.

Our audience tonight (non singing) was in the region of thirty, most of whom had to stand all evening, due to limited space.

They loved all that we did INCLUDING TRADITIONAL MUSIC, and in fact we gained a new traditional singer who surprised us all, because he is a regular who has never performed in public before, but realised tonight that he WOULD be welcomed.

INCLUSIVITY works!!

Try it
Don T.