"a lot of people are quite happy to go along to a folk club and listen, join in, or participate. You know , enjoyment!!"

I wonder why some people consider doing a thing well a contradiction to enjoying something; perhaps someone can enlighten me? Personally the greatest pleasure I ever got from singing was when it worked, both for me and for the audience.

Favourite quote, from interview we did with MacColl:
"Now you might say that working and training to develop your voice to sing Nine Maidens A-milking Did Go or Lord Randall is calculated to destroy your original joy in singing, at least that's the argument that's put to me from time to time, or has been put to me from time to time by singers who should know better.
The better you can do a thing the more you enjoy it. Anybody who's ever tried to sing and got up in front of an audience and made a bloody mess of it knows that you're not enjoying it when you're making a balls of it, but you are enjoying it when it's working, when all the things you want to happen are happening. And that can happen without training, sure it can, but it's hit or miss. If you're training it can happen more, that's the difference. It can't happen every time, not with anybody, although your training can stand you in good stead, it's something to fall back on, a technique, you know. It's something that will at least make sure that you're not absolutely diabolical
The objective, really for the singer is to create a situation where when he starts to sing he's no longer worried about technique, he's done all that, and he can give the whole of his or her attention to the song itself she can give her or he can give his whole attention to the sheer act of enjoying the song."

If you can see anything wrong with that, I'm buggered if I can.

Another aspect, if that's not enough.
Some of us are quite keen to see the next generation get the same enjoyment out of the music that we have been lucky enough to - that depends on the clubs surviving which, in turn depends on new, fresh audiences turning up..... take it as far as you want.
Jim Carroll