A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.
On New Year's Eve 2011 he made a guest appearance on Jools Holland's Hootenanny singing Fly Me to the Moon backed by the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.
This series, patterned after the American Hootenanny show, featured contemporary folk music hosted by folk musician Oscar Brand.
For instance, following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the club hosted the Haiti Hootenanny - a charitable event that raised a lot of money for Haiti relief.
When Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger passed through Seattle, they performed at the hoots; it is believed that they picked up the term hootenanny there, and passed it into the broader American vocabulary.
It has released CDs from such artists as The Bomboras and The Ghastly Ones, together with the compilation CD of various artists - Halloween Hootenanny.