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Thread #136900   Message #3761410
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
28-Dec-15 - 07:31 PM
Thread Name: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
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San Francisco Folk Music Club (US)- founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Edinburgh University Folk Society - April 1958
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - 1959
Swindon Folksingers Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club - 1961
Stockton folk club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club - 1962
Birtley Folk Club - 1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US - NY state) - pushing 50
Grimsby Folk Club - 1964
Washington DC - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1965 'only' 45½
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Durham City Folk Club - 1969
Fleetwood - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Calgary Folk Club (Can)- 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Somers Traditional Folk Club (UK) - 1981