I walked out of a folk singaround.

The pub serves up free food for the club in exchange for donations to their bar charity box. After an interval where we all fed our faces, it was my turn to perform. While I was singing one of the organisers started going round asking folks for money for said charity. This provoked several conversations that I found very distracting. When I opened my eyes during verse three I found the organiser's arse in my face as he bent over to collect money opposite me. It is a small room. That was enough. I left mid-song.

In an acoustic folk club you don't go round collecting money or holding conversations while folks are singing. That is disrespectful to the local artist doing her/his best. Do it during the interval. Mind you it probably wouldn't bother those organisers if somebody else did it to them. They all read the words of every song anyway. One regular reckons he knows hundreds of songs. No he doesn't. He doesn't 'know' any of them. He just performs them. He reads the words and chord-shapes.