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Thread #163552   Message #3903877
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
05-Feb-18 - 04:22 AM
Thread Name: Oldest Folk Club Around?
Subject: RE: Oldest Folk Club Around?
Australia - Bush Music Club founded 24th October 1954

I started this thread Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs? in 2011 in the lead up to our anniversary & many other clubs contributed their starting dates.

this came from my final post in 2016 when I listed all the clubs

San Francisco Folk Music Club (US)- founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - 1959
Swindon Folksingers Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton folk club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US - NY state) - pushing 50
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Washington DC (US) - 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' 45?
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - late 60s
Calgary Folk Club (Can)- 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Somers Traditional Folk Club (UK) - 1981