Most welcoming Folk Club? No such thing - Folk Law states that in every Folk Club (proper or otherwise) there always has to be at least one resident curmudeonly old tosser who manages to mess it up for everyone else. Off hand I can't think of any where this hasn't been the case, though I've always managed to ignore it, like one fellow resident of yore who made his hatred of me public knowledge on several occasions and thought that was somehow acceptable. Shame really, because he's one of my favourite singers & his photographs of agricultural avian-deterrent folk-art mannequins really are second to none (we still have one of his exhibition posters on our wall). I always try and abide by The People, Lord, Thy People rule, but I too am only human...

And there's no such thing as a benign dictatorship either, though there's something in The Folk Gene that lends itself to cringing deference to authoritarian rule - just look at the sycophantic fawning that goes on around here over Max and Joe. But another factor in my Folk is a Religion hypothesis.