There are very few folkies making a living. By that I mean enough to pay the mortgage, bring up 2.4 children, run a car, take the family away for two weeks in the sun etc.

That probably means that handful of well known performers on the concert circuit. I'm sure that Vic would agree that very few of the guests he books at his weekly club are among them.

But it's not just folkies - I reckon that only about 10 per cent of all "full time" musicians of any genre fulfil the criteria above.