I ran a little folk club in Shottisham nr Woodbridge for nearly two years.The pub sadly did not lend itself to charging admission so during the evening we took the hat round and whatever we raised went to the guest artists.The sum raised on average was about £50 ,but towards the end of my time there it was around £100, The artists appeared on the basis of what we raised, they got, we always had regular members who got a spot and visiting holiday performers.A sit down audience watching folk is not common and many proffered the audience concentration rather than singing to a pub crowd, part talking and drinking, whilst they were performing.By the time I left from a slow start it was fairly successful,there were no problems getting artists,as we were being totally honest with them. The club is still running now and as far as know still successfully.
Al