The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20582   Message #3318543
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
07-Mar-12 - 04:45 AM
Thread Name: Does anyone really like folk clubs?
Subject: RE: Does anyone really like folk clubs?
We call our wee sesh a Folk Club, and a lot of Folk Clubs are just singarounds. Mostly I suppose a Folk Club is a more formal sort of concert venue with a selected club member providing support; mostly they operate like a reduction of the traditional British WMC (you know you're in trouble when the MC refers to the guests as artistes) overseen by a paternalistic committee, or pastorally minded gaffer who speaks for his flock. They can be great fun, but you know you're dealing with hoary well-established instituationalism soon as you set foot in the place; in UK Folk Clubs, this is what's generally meant by Traditional...