Strange thing is, Jim, I 'walked away' for fifteen years or so for precisely the opposite reason - the 'side' of the music that is my preference, 'folk-styled' modern songs reflecting the lives of people in the 20th century, began to be edged out by the 'Traddies' who scowled and snarled, "Not folk" on hearing anything which fell outside the strait-jacket of the almighty and hallowed 'Definition'. Whilst I genuinely enjoy 'Trad' songs, the prospect of an entire evening of them filled me (and still fills me) with gloom - as I've said previously, variety is the spice of life AFAIC, and there's room for both types of song.

We obviously moved in very different circles!

I came back to folk-clubs reluctantly in the late-'80s, when my son's head-teacher (a superb singer of 'Trad' material, BTW) was trying to get a club on its feet locally. Very wary, I said, "I don't do any Trad stuff", he replied, "That's fine, we like nice mixture of Trad and Contemporary", and the rest is history.

I still only 'do' one Trad song, but I enjoy hearing others sing them. Just not the whole of the evening.