Actually, the fact that lots of young people dont play folk music or have access to it does bother me. and I spend a large chunk of my life trying to do something about it. But the fact that they dont go to folk clubs doesnt bother me in the least. Folk clubs are no longer a place to go to hear where you can expect to hear folk music, and as has been repeatedly said, why should teenagers wnt to hang out with fifty year olds.
When I was a lad I went to find older people who knew old songs in country pubs, because I was interested. I didnt go out and seek fifty year old people practising their song-writing. Why would that interest a teenager? It didnt interest me, anyway.