The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46239   Message #685438
Posted By: Hecate
08-Apr-02 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: OBIT: Is your folk club dieing
Subject: RE: OBIT: Is your folk club dieing
I know ours is smaller than it used to be - back in he good old days, Redditch used to have about a hundred people, or so legend has it. Currently its between ten and twenty most weeks, but enough to shuffle along with. Shortage of decent venues is crippling - modern pubs don't have dingy back roms for folkies to gather in, and the Public entertainment license issues are no fun at all. On the plus side, we've got a fair few people on the less usual side of middle aged, with our youngest member being all of nine years old (and learning the Hammer Dulcimer)so there is some hope.