I find it interesting that "coffeehouse" here is used in a sense that clearly sees the music venue as being the central thing, with an admission charge, and the coffee thrown in for free maybe.

With us "coffeehouse" would mean a place where you go and buy a cup of coffee, and these days you'd be very lucky to have any live music on the premises, because they'd need a Public Entertainment Licence even for one person to play or sing.

So when you say "coffeehouse" in the States, we should read it as "non-alcoholic folk club". Might make a nice change sometimes.

Any body in England got any experience with running one like that? And how did it work out with the PEL system (where all the assumptions tend to be that it's only in places with liquor licences that this kind of activity can ever take place.)