Thanks for the heartfelt apology Jim and the grovelling admission that you were completely wrong about your assumption of what happens at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club and my assumed understanding of folk music.

I have no doubt that there are a few clubs which adher to a proncipled policy and yours may well be one of them
BREAKTHROUGH!
- that is not my concern
Why not? I would have thought you would have been glad of news that "proper" folk music (or something that loosely conforms or roughly resembes it) is alive and well in the UK.

I'd just rather argue as an equal, if it's all the same with you.
Then do so. You are constantly in attack mode and refuse to listen to what people say.

O brave new world that has such people in't!