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Thread #148342   Message #3445749
Posted By: GUEST,Breedlove OF
02-Dec-12 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: Review: Julie Felix at Stourbridge Folk Club
Subject: RE: Review: Julie Felix at Stourbridge Folk Club
To Will Fly. To be honest Will I sort of agree with you. Guest Booking is probably not the only way, or indeed even the best way to sustain Folk for future generations. That is something Folk 21 will have to wrestle with, and maybe draw their own conclusions as whether it should be part of the their objectives or not. They clearly feel that there is a problem, why else would they have gone to all the trouble they have.

In many ways, like you, I would argue that Folk Clubs should be more about singarounds, sessions, and general participation by all, probably the best hands on way of passing thing on. Guest Nights may, in fact, be part of the problem, not part of the answer?