According to Mark Jones (1, pp7), folk music began to resurface in Britain, by the early 1950s, with artists such as Ewan MacColl leading the music scene. 
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From this revival of folk music, folk clubs started to arise, which a few became hotbeds of socialism, with the first Bristol folk club based at the Communist club at Lawford gate (Jones, 2009, pp8)
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Apart from that folk music in Bristol had more of a cultural base setting. When evangelists were rediscovering folk music, due to the tradition of passing down the songs orally being halted from WW1 and WW2, the folk songs were altered to sound more 'appropriate and 'nicer'.

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By the early 1950s, people figure out popular folk music was not authentic. They believe that” the middle class had hijacked folk music and made it into something they wished it to be.” (Jones, 2009, pp8).

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By the late 1960s and 1970s, most of the folk clubs were situated in bars or licenced student unions, with one of the best-remembered first clubs was the Bristol University Folk and Blues club, the Troubadour folk club and the Bristol Ballads and Blues

Troubador had more of a bias toward contemporary folk from the international artist, meanwhile, Bristol Ballads and Blues focus more on traditional folk from a local artist.

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Nowadays, we do not have a great club like the Troubador, however, the Bristol folk festival exists, which was seen as an inclusive festival suitable for all ages, we as in the past mainly teenagers and young adults.