Too young but older than I thought (65) you remember people as you met them. When we had a local folk/acoustic thing from about 2004 onwards we booked very few people as it was mostly singaround and we had no money.
I think it is true that we gave Hissyfit their first paid gig. Jacqui of Jacqui and Bridie played (friend of someone who came) - I have a songbook from the 60's. Last Night's Fun twice.

Kieran Halpin played and was lovely. Huge hardworking man who did enormous numbers of gigs - mostly in Germany as there was no money for gigging artists in this country.

Very sad. He was really good. The one thing I remember was that a friend of his - and/or someone he had played with - had died within the previous week and he very sad. Still did a great gig.

A friend who was part of arranging it is in France now and was a huge fan and used to sing his songs. Hope he still does