Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jul 24 - 07:24 PM

Sandra - can you check the third of the links you posted? It wouldn't open for me, although the others did.

Memories.....I was at the 30th anniversary, 40 years ago. Many of the original and early members were present and spoke about the club's early days, which was very interesting to those of us who weren't around at the time.

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Jul 24 - 07:48 PM

oops - I'll ask Joe or Stilly to replace the bad link

70th Anniversary - Reunion of Members & friends @ The Goulburn Club, Sunday 26th May 2024 - photographs

Bob Bolton's pics of the 30th Anniversary 1984

pic of you @ 50th Anniversary

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 60yrs?
From: JennieG
Date: 30 Jul 24 - 09:51 PM

Thanks, Sandra!

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 18 Feb 25 - 06:33 PM

Another one for 1965


"The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] at the Crown, Abbey Foregate.

If you were there at The Boathouse in 1965, or the festival weekends, or the sessions in the Severn Stars, The Castle, The Globe or The Crown then please come along to raise a glass and sing a song on Wednesday 19th around 8 pm."

Shropshire Folk Musicians
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shropshirefolk/posts/9130167963688230/

(they don't have their own web page)

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 02:31 AM

I did sing at the Seven Stars, lovely weekends. give my regards to pat sheard

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 25 - 02:50 AM

I can only repeat what I said in May 24 when I last updated the list -

You're doing a good job adding to our list, Freddy, I think you've contributed the most entries! Gold Star & Pat on the Back to you


San Francisco Folk Music Club (US) - founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Bridge Folk Club Newcastle (UK) - 1958
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - est. 1959 as Bush Music Club of Victoria, name changed 1963
Swindon Folk Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962 & closed December 2014
Denver Folklore Centre (US) -1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
Marsden Folk Club (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US) - 1960s
Rhyl Folk Club (Wales) 1964
Darlington Folk Workshop (UK) - 1964
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Cambridge Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - Dec 1964?
The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] - 1965
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (UK) - 1965
Yellow Door, Montreal (Can) - 1966
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1967
BACCApipes Folk Club (UK) - 1967
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Christchurch Folk Club (formerly Bank Peninsula Folk Club) (NZ) - est. Nov 1968
Central Australian Folk Society in Alice Springs (Aus) - est. 1968
Dragon Folk Club (Bristol, UK) - 1969
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Hoy at Anchor (UK) - 1970
Devonport Folk Club (NZ) aka The Bunker - 1970
Chichester Folk Song Club (UK) - over 50 years (as of 2023)
Maidenhead Folk Club (UK) - early 70s
Monaro Folk Music Society (Aus) - 1971
Top End Folk Club (Aus) - 1971
Cross Keys Folk Club, Saddleworth (UK) - 1972
Calgary Folk Club (Can) - 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Dartford Folk Club (UK) - 1973
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973 final concert May 2019, Society is still in existence
Irvine Folk Club (Scotland) 1974
Nettlebed Folk Song Club (UK) - 1975
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - 1976
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 25 - 09:36 AM

some local clubs I'd forgotten (oops)

Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society (Aus) - June 1975
Folk federation of New South Wales (Aus) - 1970
Illawarra Folk Club (Aus) 1980
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - 1968/69
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club (Aus) - 1978

San Francisco Folk Music Club (US) - founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Bridge Folk Club Newcastle (UK) - 1958
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - est. 1959 as Bush Music Club of Victoria, name changed 1963
Swindon Folk Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962 & closed December 2014
Denver Folklore Centre (US) -1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
Marsden Folk Club (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US) - 1960s
Rhyl Folk Club (Wales) 1964
Darlington Folk Workshop (UK) - 1964
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Cambridge Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - Dec 1964?
The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] - 1965
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (UK) - 1965
Yellow Door, Montreal (Can) - 1966
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1967
BACCApipes Folk Club (UK) - 1967
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Christchurch Folk Club (formerly Bank Peninsula Folk Club) (NZ) - est. Nov 1968
Central Australian Folk Society in Alice Springs (Aus) - est. 1968
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - 1968/69
Dragon Folk Club (Bristol, UK) - 1969
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Hoy at Anchor (UK) - 1970
Folk federation of New South Wales (Aus) - 1970
Devonport Folk Club (NZ) aka The Bunker - 1970
Chichester Folk Song Club (UK) - over 50 years (as of 2023)
Maidenhead Folk Club (UK) - early 70s
Monaro Folk Music Society (Aus) - 1971
Top End Folk Club (Aus) - 1971
Cross Keys Folk Club, Saddleworth (UK) - 1972
Calgary Folk Club (Can) - 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Dartford Folk Club (UK) - 1973
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973 final concert May 2019, Society is still in existence
Irvine Folk Club (Scotland) - 1974
Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society (Aus) - June 1975
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - 1976
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club (Aus) - 1978
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Illawarra Folk Club (Aus) 1980

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 May 25 - 10:37 AM

one of the above are no longer going, folk at royal oak lewes

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 May 25 - 10:40 AM

potteres folk club is 60 years, but used to be weekly but is now monthly

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 12 May 25 - 05:25 PM

I kept scrolling down to see when Glasgow Folk Club, started by me and Drew Moyes at the instigation of Janey Buchan in a lunch venue in the Trongate in 1960, would be inserted in the fascinating list.
Emergent resident group was called The Broomhill Bums [named for the site of Hamish Imlach's 19 month party], including Josh Macrae, Archie Fisher, Ray Fisher, Hamish Imlach, Jackie O'Connor and me masel.
Moved to Glasgow Folk Centre run by Drew after a couple of years.
Ewan

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 25 - 06:03 PM

Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes (UK) - 1965 will be removed!

Ewan, I just searched 'Glasgow Folk Club site:mudcat.org' & saw lots of mentions of Glasgow, but no Glasgow Folk Club, looks like no one has mentioned it before, unless it's the Star - https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/folkclubs/StarFolkClub but it started in the late 70s.

A search for 'potters folk club' gets 'Do you mean potteries folk club'
https://www.potteriesfolkclub.com/ - founded over 60 years ago

The Star, Glasgow (Scotland) - late 70s
Potteries Folk Club (UK) - before 1965


San Francisco Folk Music Club (US) - founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Bridge Folk Club Newcastle (UK) - 1958
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - est. 1959 as Bush Music Club of Victoria, name changed 1963
Swindon Folk Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962 & closed December 2014
Denver Folklore Centre (US) -1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
Marsden Folk Club (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US) - 1960s
Rhyl Folk Club (Wales) 1964
Darlington Folk Workshop (UK) - 1964
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Cambridge Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - Dec 1964?
Potteries Folk Club (UK) - before 1965
The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] - 1965
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Yellow Door, Montreal (Can) - 1966
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1967
BACCApipes Folk Club (UK) - 1967
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Christchurch Folk Club (formerly Bank Peninsula Folk Club) (NZ) - est. Nov 1968
Central Australian Folk Society in Alice Springs (Aus) - est. 1968
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - 1968/69
Dragon Folk Club (Bristol, UK) - 1969
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Hoy at Anchor (UK) - 1970
Folk federation of New South Wales (Aus) - 1970
Devonport Folk Club (NZ) aka The Bunker - 1970
Chichester Folk Song Club (UK) - over 50 years (as of 2023)
Maidenhead Folk Club (UK) - early 70s
Monaro Folk Music Society (Aus) - 1971
Top End Folk Club (Aus) - 1971
Cross Keys Folk Club, Saddleworth (UK) - 1972
Calgary Folk Club (Can) - 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Dartford Folk Club (UK) - 1973
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973 final concert May 2019, Society is still in existence
Irvine Folk Club (Scotland) - 1974
Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society (Aus) - June 1975
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - 1976
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club (Aus) - 1978
The Star, Glasgow (Scotland) - late 70s
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Illawarra Folk Club (Aus) 1980

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 12 May 25 - 07:06 PM

btw re Royal Oak , Lewes
"This main function of this website was formerly to advertise events at the very successful Folk at the Royal Oak, Lewes venture which was organised by Vic & Tina.
We decided that, after 50 years of running folk clubs, the last 23 at the Royal Oak, it was time for us to step down. The club was still running very successfully and we did hope that others would step up to take over the organisation.
Sadly, this did not happen and the club closed at the end of 2013.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~tinvic/

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 25 - 10:12 PM

definitely sad.

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 15 May 25 - 05:33 AM

I expect someone will kindly change this link to a blue clicky - I just tried to but got an offer to to make a PDF instead!
https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/ewan-mcvicar/
You will see I was wrong, the Glasgow Folk Club started in 1959, not 1960. Also see my book 'One Singer One Song'.
Goodness, Mudcat is after all not the fount of all folky knowledge.
Ewan

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: GUEST,Ewan McVicar
Date: 15 May 25 - 05:49 AM

Well, I'd better add some more about the Glasgow Folk Club. One book credits Norman Buchan and Morris Blythman with starting it, but they were both school teachers who encouraged/taught some of the youngsters like me who started the club.
[Morris had in 1956 started the Allan Glen's Ballad & Blues Club at break time in the school where he taught and I attended.
Norman brought along young singers in Rutherglen Academy where he taught. I don't know what his sessions in the school were called or when they started.]
The trams rattling along the Trongate would drown out singers in the Glasgow Club, till three weeks in two university types brought in a thing on a pole and a box that plugged in to the mains, and singers became louder than the trams.
Our first guest, eight weeks in, was Jimmie MacBeath. I was the treasurer and paid him £8, more than he had ever being paid for singing in his life till then. He called me MR MCVICAR, I was an 18 year old who was in awe of him.
Ewan

Subject: RE: Long-lived folk clubs? 70 yrs?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 May 25 - 07:38 AM

Thankyou, MR MCVICAR

to create blue clickies I use DaveRo's simple linkifier

Ewan McVicar - Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame


San Francisco Folk Music Club (US) - founded 1948
Bush Music Club (Aus) - founded 1954
Topic in Bradford (UK) - founded 1956
Bridge Folk Club Newcastle (UK) - 1958
Edinburgh University Folk Society (UK) - April 1958
Vancouver Folk Song Society (Can) - July 1959
The Folksong Society of Greater Boston (US) - 1959
Victorian Folk Music Club (Aus) - est. 1959 as Bush Music Club of Victoria, name changed 1963
Glasgow Folk Club - 1959
Swindon Folk Club (UK) - Jan 1960
Dunfermline Folk Club (UK) - 1961
Stockton Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Aberdeen Folk Club (UK) - 1962
Birtley Folk Club (UK) - 1962 & closed December 2014
Denver Folklore Centre (US) -1962
Herga (UK) - 1963
The Fo'c's'le (formerly Balladeer) Southampton (UK) - 1963
Marsden Folk Club (UK) - 1963
The Pick'n & Sing'n Gather'n (US) - 1960s
Rhyl Folk Club (Wales) 1964
Darlington Folk Workshop (UK) - 1964
Grimsby Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Folklore Society Of Greater Washington (US) - 1964
Black Diamond Folk Club, Birmingham (UK) - 1964
Cambridge Folk Club (UK) - 1964
Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - Dec 1964?
Potteries Folk Club (UK) - before 1965
The Shrewsbury Folk Club will be celebrating its 60th year on Wednesday 19th February[2025] - 1965
Southport's Bothy Folksong Club (UK) - 1965
Orpington Folk Club (UK) - 1965
Whitby (UK) - similar age to Orpington
Cutty Wren Folk Club, Redcar (UK) - 1965
Yellow Door, Montreal (Can) - 1966
Croydon Folk Club (UK) - 1967
BACCApipes Folk Club (UK) - 1967
Frodsham Folk Club (Cheshire UK) - Jan 1968
Christchurch Folk Club (formerly Bank Peninsula Folk Club) (NZ) - est. Nov 1968
Central Australian Folk Society in Alice Springs (Aus) - est. 1968
Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club (Aus) - 1968/69
Dragon Folk Club (Bristol, UK) - 1969
Durham City Folk Club (UK) - 1969
Fleetwood (UK) - 1969 (40 slightly interrupted years)
Hoy at Anchor (UK) - 1970
Folk federation of New South Wales (Aus) - 1970
Devonport Folk Club (NZ) aka The Bunker - 1970
Chichester Folk Song Club (UK) - over 50 years (as of 2023)
Maidenhead Folk Club (UK) - early 70s
Monaro Folk Music Society (Aus) - 1971
Top End Folk Club (Aus) - 1971
Cross Keys Folk Club, Saddleworth (UK) - 1972
Calgary Folk Club (Can) - 1972
Islington Folk Club (UK) - 1972
Dartford Folk Club (UK) - 1973
Woods Hole Folk Music Society (US) - 1973 final concert May 2019, Society is still in existence
Irvine Folk Club (Scotland) - 1974
Bluegrass & Traditional Country Music Society (Aus) - June 1975
Dorking Folk Club (UK) - 1976
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Folk Club (Aus) - 1978
The Star, Glasgow (Scotland) - late 70s
Llantrisant Folk Club (UK) - 1980
Illawarra Folk Club (Aus) 1980