There is nothing you can do about it. If you enjoy going there, enjoy it for what it is.

I'm slightly puzzled by this response. Obviously there's nothing I can do about it (other than encouraging traddies to go along in large numbers). I was just pointing out that your experience isn't universal, and that the people being critical of actual existing FCs aren't all people who remember how bad it was thirty years ago and have rarely been in a folk club since.

Anyway, what goes on at the local FC doesn't bother me personally - I know where to find the kind of stuff I want to find. I'm more concerned about people in the same position I was six years ago, wandering along to their first FC and thinking "Hey, people singing whatever they like in whatever style they like, and not bothering too much about practising or getting it right! This folk stuff is a good laugh!" It is a good laugh, but an evening of traditional music is something else. FCs where anything goes are a lousy gateway drug - they don't do nearly enough to get people on to the hard stuff.