"Virtually all involved in the revival in those days were non-professional; making a living from the Folk Clubs was a rarity."
I presume you are talking about 1961.
I was talking about the time[ mid sixties] they gave up to help the critics group, as I understand it The Critics Group ran for eight years from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.
Carthy was pro in 1965.
Cyril Tawney left the Navy early in 1959 to become a full-time professional musician and broadcaster. He earned his living in this way for 44 years, making him Britain's longest-standing professional folksinger.
By 1961,Alex Campbell was playing folk clubs in London, including Les Cousins, and appeared several times, on and off stage, at Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor's London Folk Song Cellar on the BBC. He toured Germany several times, and other parts of Europe.
Wizz Jones, 1966, Ralph McTell 1967,
Roy Harris quote"I decided to go full time after a good reception at Sidmouth Festival in 1964,"
IAN CAMPBELL FOLK GROUP..In 1963, they signed to Transatlantic Records and released their first studio album, This is The Ian Campbell Folk Group. The group made television appearances throughout the 1960s including Hootenanny Show, Barn Dance and Hullabaloo, They established a substantial audience and played concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall and at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964. In 1965, their version of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" reached No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart.
Hamish Imlach 1965.Derek Brimstone 1965.Johnny Handle.TheSpinners, The Corries. The McCalmans 1964.