Interesting points raised in the last message...

A large input in the UK folk revival in the late 50's and early 60's came from people who wanted to entertain.

The skiffle boom saw the formation of many groups of youbg people who wanted to play and sing and found this to be possible and easily accessible via a guitar, three chords, a home-made bass and washboard...many of these went on to take part in the beat boom while others found there was life away from their mainly American folk song repertoire{ and no disrespect here) and began to discover our own native folk song

Did the popularity of the folk club begin to fizzle out with the dawning of the more insular singaround?