Hi Barry, The session at the Blackthorne in south Easton isn't run by Bridget, although she is there quite often, when she isn't off at a festival, etc. I'll say hello if you like. It was never officially a singing session. However, when we started we didn't really know many available melody instrument players, so by default the first year (@97) we sang a lot! Especially with the owner, John O'Connor there, who absolutely loves the session and knows practically every lyric there is. (He's even finagled his way into doing impromptu spots with musicians on concert nights, i.e., the Clancys, Fairport Convention, Robbie O'Connell.)

So, absolutely there is always singing. However, most nights there are many tunes as well. We regularly might have some combo of pipes, fiddle, whistle, banjo, mandolin, guitar. The piper comes every other week, and there is a session every single week, no matter what. Some beginners, some intermediate, and a monster here and there (the piper!)