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Thread #136900 Message #3761396
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
28-Dec-15 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
The oldest Folk Club in Scotland: Edinburgh University Folk Society took off in April 1958: they had a great celebration weekend in 2008! And the original Dunfermline Folk Club started in 1961: another big commemorative weekend staged by the current Dunfermline Folk Club i October 2011. Sadly, one of the founder members and prolific songwriter, John Watt, died in hospital that very weekend