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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.