"Crow Sister,your post could possibly suggest that folk/traditional music should not be part of socialisation,"

Not at all Dick - to clarify what I meant: I think the PRIMARY function of any club or venue for *entertainment and socialising* is simply that, and not 'education'.

Education/information at such a venue may happen incidentally. But no club should feel burdened with the responsibility of educating the public. That'd be like demanding amateur dramatics clubs bear the responsibility for educating the public about Marlowe or Shakespear or whatever. What I'm saying is that folk clubs are a phenomena of the revival and popular with folk revivalists, but enabling broader public knowledge of and access to the vast body of Traditional material that is 'the music of the people', shouldn't be the sole responsibility of folk clubs and revival enthusiasts. What I'm saying is that the modern cultural phenomenon we know as the revival, should be gently teased apart from Traditional music as a body of material which comprises a part of everyone's cultural heritage. The two things are not identical, and aught not to be treated as such - IMHO.