After being invited by those who set it up, I recently joined the Folk Clubs UK group on Facebook.

On the group's opening page there is the message On joining - you will manually be made an admin in order that you can post your club events to the Events...

"Great!" I thought, "Another useful source of free publicity for the events that I run at the Royal Oak in Lewes"

Yesterday I put up an event listing for each of the Thursday gigs at The Royal Oak in Lewes until the end of the season in July.

This morning, I received three messages from Facebook, one saying "Julie Smith cancelled the event "KEN HALL & PETA WEBB". There were similar messages about the events that I had listed for CHRIS FOSTER and for KEITH KENDRICK & SYLVIA NEEDHAM.

I do not know Julie Smith and she has no connection with The Royal Oak folk events in Lewes. I have sent her a Facebook message asking for an explanation but none has been forthcoming.

Apparently, all those who join this group are made administrators, which gives them the right to enter or to remove events.

If members can remove events posted by others at will, surely this negates the whole purpose of this group which I believed allowed organisers to promote their events.

Has any other folk club organiser had a similar experience?