Folk music and song isn't dying but the environment where it is heard is changing. Some clubs may decline different venues may flourish.

The loss of a generation has played merry hell with the economics of running folk events so there are more sessions and fewer clubs than when I first came onto the scene.

The important thing is that there is a route in so that people can discover what is there. I started going to folk clubs because Dylan was cool and the first performer I saw was Tony Rose. I have been hooked on traditional music ever since.