Cellar Upstairs is still going! Cellar Upstairs folk club. Traditional music and song in central London. Monday evenings at 8pm
Upstairs, downstairs: the story of the Cellar club The Cellar folk club seems to have begun in December 1960 – at any rate, that was the month in which it was first mentioned in English Dance & Song (now EDS).

Cornell website last post was 2018 - ... we know that it existed in spring of 1957 ...
facebook is current Promoting traditional and traditionally-oriented folk music on and off campus since the 1950s.


San Francisco Folk Music Club (US) - founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Cornell Folk Song Society (US) - spring of 1957
Bridge Folk Club Newcastle (UK) - 1958
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Cellar Upstairs (UK) - December 1960
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - est. 1959 as Bush Music Club of Victoria, name changed 1963
Glasgow Folk Club - 1959
Swindon Folk Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962 & closed December 2014
Denver Folklore Centre (US) -1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
Marsden Folk Club (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US) - 1960s
Rhyl Folk Club (Wales) 1964
Darlington Folk Workshop (UK) - 1964
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Cambridge Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Potteries Folk Club (UK) - before 1965
The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] - 1965
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Yellow Door, Montreal (Can) - 1966
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1967
BACCApipes Folk Club (UK) - 1967
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Christchurch Folk Club (formerly Bank Peninsula Folk Club) (NZ) - est. Nov 1968
Central Australian Folk Society in Alice Springs (Aus) - est. 1968
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - 1968/69
Dragon Folk Club (Bristol, UK) - 1969
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Hoy at Anchor (UK) - 1970
Folk federation of New South Wales (Aus) - 1970
Devonport Folk Club (NZ) aka The Bunker - 1970
Chichester Folk Song Club (UK) - over 50 years (as of 2023)
Maidenhead Folk Club (UK) - early 70s
Monaro Folk Music Society (Aus) - 1971
Top End Folk Club (Aus) - 1971
Cross Keys Folk Club, Saddleworth (UK) - 1972
Calgary Folk Club (Can) - 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Dartford Folk Club (UK) - 1973
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973 final concert May 2019, Society is still in existence
Irvine Folk Club (Scotland) - 1974
Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society (Aus) - June 1975
Macquarie Towns Music Club (Aus) - Oct 1975
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - 1976
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club (Aus) - 1978
The Star, Glasgow (Scotland) - late 70s
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Illawarra Folk Club (Aus) 1980