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GUEST,Western woman Unaccompanied Singers (82* d) RE: Unaccompanied Singers 21 Apr 08


I've been going to singing sessions for forty years. I love unaccompanied singing and also love a good singer. Sometimes you get both, mostly one or the other. When a good singer sings unaccompanied and sings a good song, bliss happens, and others do listen. Some things annoy me. There was a yearly festival I used to go to where a couple of bad singers hogged the session with very long songs one after the other for the first hour or so. The organisers (in Ireland) decided that the Sean Nos singers were not getting a chance. So they decided to introduce a Gaelic singing hour to start with, then open it up to the rest. It worked a treat, and everyone got a fair chance. Another annoyance, a singer deciding to indulge him or herself with a twenty minute introduction to a song which will usually be longer than the song. I would not describe myself as a good singer, but do enjoy singing and love to get a chance to sing one. Good accompaniment, well worked out with the singer is bound to be good, but only when invited.


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