GUEST,Graham Bradshaw

The question is, will any current commercial success generate a renewed interest in the folk club format? Probably not, unless they are being run by the same age group who started them up way back then, ie the teens and 20s.

According to my research, when they formed the Ballad and Blues Club in 1953 (later to become the Singers' Club), Ewan MacColl and Alan Lomax were 38, A.L.Lloyd was 45 and Séamus Ennis was 34.