As a net user who's a bit long in the tooth and who's knocked around folk clubs for about five decades I find the comments interesting. I have two teenage daughters who've been involved in sessions and have attended two particular folk festivals (Nariel Creek and the National, in Canberra) for most of their lives; Andrez has probably (albeit unknowingly) met both of them. Both are prodigiously competent on their chosen instruments (piano and recorder) and both have ripped most of my CD collection onto their iPods.

Being studious, they don't have much time to spend organising bands or clubs and the local area is blessed with music outlets but not much in the way of folk clubs. But they are part of a fairly large circle of their peers, from all over SE Oz (and communicated, via SMS about the effects of the Victorian fires on some members), who are in groups and perform together; some (under the name Celtaclysmia) issued a CD (A cello named Bucket) at last year's National.

So, some youthful members of the net population are active in the way Will desires, but I'm not sure of their participation in clubs; most are keen on their high school and uni studies, where the pressure can be excessive.

Cheers, Rowan