Surreysinger

Sounds like you have a much younger audience than I had in mind.

Friends from our folk clubs get requests to play at various social / community events, during the summer especially. Though no-one I know would risk Streets of London at a folk club I keep it in my repetoire and it is a good usefull song to sing at such community events.

Dirty Old Town? I don't sing it myself but two local singers do, and sing it in folk clubs as well as to non folkie audiences.

And yes, what's popular in songs does vary like mad depending on your area. There are songs I remember from when I went to Surrey folk clubs which I have never heard since.

Ian Fyvie