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Thread #170304   Message #4118457
Posted By: GUEST,matt milton
01-Sep-21 - 06:57 AM
Thread Name: How many folk clubs have reopened? /covid recovery
Subject: RE: How many folk clubs have reopened ?
Here in London it has been very recent.

For instance, this weekend (September 4 and 5) sees the return of monthlies Tooting Folk Club (with the excellent old-time group The Rigmarollers) and Dulwich Folk (with the excellent fiddler Ben Paley).
And actually Tooting has had a few outdoor sessions over the summer.

Folk of the Round Table is relatively new among London's folk clubs - sprang up about 6 months before the pandemic hit - but that has been back and running since July at New Cross's Matchstick Piehouse. It's a great singaround club, though with tunes as well as songs. The youngest audience of any trad folk club I've ever known, almost all attendees are in their 20s and 30s.

The Goose Is Out, another great south london folk club has restarted.

The long running Cellar Upstairs has restarted. Orpington Folk and Blues has restarted. Croydon Folk Club has restarted.

Musical Traditions hasn't (which slightly surprises me given how much it overlaps with Cellar Upstairs in terms of regulars). Islington Folk Club hasn't.

So reasonably robust in London then, all told.