You do get the feeling some of the people from around the parts in question are not at all very friendly!!certainly sound aggressive and extremely down right rude and definitely insulting, about people thay do not know or know nothing about, in what they put in there thread.
       If you feel so strong about people calling in at your local pub why dont you be a man and put on the pubs names you dont won't people in, I am sure this will solve your problems.
       Personally at our local folk session we welcome anyone to join us and we have some great nights on doing so, find it nice to have some different songs and tunes also make some life long friends from all over the world which we have. Before anyone says I do live in a very popular tourist town and busy all year round!!
    I think it would be upsetting to find that someone from our local folk session had been on this site and been an unelected spokesperson for us all!!
    I do think you have to read the first threads to find they are not a band but a bunch of friends on holiday wanting some place to have a drink and maybe invited to join in,It also Say's that not everyone out of the group plays or sings, They have been before to Ireland and had a better response than this very hostile one they are getting from the few spokesmen from the local Pubs they will not name!!.
       Its people that make a good folk session and with this you take the good with the bad, its great to meet new people and socialise with people that love and like traditional music as you do,Is this not what we did years ago in pubs friends old and new!! round a few table's pints in hand someone singing a song or playing a instrument. Lets try to bring them days back, I know we give it a good go were we live welcome is always on the mat!.
         So if you really don't wont visitors to your pub please Name the pubs!! then people wont go,us humans dont like being were we are not welcome.
                         Mrs C.