I wish I could remember how I found the folk club and got involved, but I actually don't.

I remember being involved.

The club has had a continuous life since 1948.

I used to go fairly regularly and the person kind of running it was Herb Jaeger.

He decided to go back east for a while, and he came and asked me if I would take over that job for the three months that he was gone.

Well, he was gone for three years and he wouldn't take it back when he came back.

So here I was.

I became the person kind of keeping the folk club glued together.

I, I got the newsletter started and I edited that for about 17 years.

Also, I got tired of calling up people and asking them to meet at their houses.

So I got very brilliant.

Why don' we just have it at this house?

And that's what's been happening ever since.

There would be 150, 175 people here on a Friday night.

It is said that no folk singer hadn't slept at night at 885 Clayton on the floor.

It was a stopping place.

I visited and stayed at her house on Clayton Street.

I pulled up in front of her house as she was walking dow the street with another woman.

The other woman turned out to be Ronnie Gilbert, member of the Weavers.

We have several hundred members.

People go camping together, and then we put on the Free Folk Festival every year.

The club sponsors the Hootenanny Night.

The folk music club, to me, was about people getting together and taking control of their lives and their relationship with music and deciding that they were going to be creators of music, rather than consumers.

No, you cant scare me, Im sticking with the union, Im sticking with the union, Im sticking with the union, Oh you cant scare me, Im sticking with the union, I'm sticking with the union 'till the day I die!