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Folk club

A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music. Folk clubs were primarily an urban phenomenon of 1960s and 1970s Great Britain and Ireland, and vital to the second British folk revival, but continue today there and elsewhere. In America, as part of the American folk music revival, they played a key role not only in acoustic music, but in launching the careers of groups that later became rock and roll acts.

Pub session

(Oct. 1994) "Club death: have folk clubs gone irrevocably into senility? Should we care? Are there any green shoots of revival?" Folk Roots; Oct. 1994, pp. 28–31

Peters, Brian

J. P. Bean; Singing from the Floor: A History of British Folk Clubs; London, 2014.

; The Mudcat Café

Folk Clubs, Greater Manchester, 1960-1999

UK Folk Festivals

UK folk clubs

UK folk events