BTW Steve (and Blandiver now I have seen your post too) I am now very particular in who and what I go and see in or out of folk clubs as well. I think it may be an age thing. When you realise that you have already had a lot more than you are going to get you do tend to spend your time a lot more wisely :-) Hence the reason I am no longer involved with the festival I mentioned and am no longer a regular at any folk club. There are some wonderful performers out there. We may have different tastes but I suspect we can all tell when a performance is somewhat short of what it should be.

Like Steve, we also have a session where a group of like minded friends gather round a table, usually with a drop or two
(or three or four...) of fine ale and sing and play until the early hours. Trouble is it is in a pub. No I'm not saying where. Some bastard will always ask us to play something, usually Irish, then proceed to sing half the first verse, three words from the second and a bit of the chorus, in F# and a bit, 17/6 time and go on to tell us how good this folk music is...

:D tG