Well, I think that if I like a song I shall damn well sing it. And so do a lot of other people. At the singing circle I have recently joined I am quite happy to listen to ANYONE sing ANYTHING and I don't care whether they are off key, squeeky, or singing something I don't like. That is because they extend the same courtesy to me. And to anyone that sneers at someone else's choice of songs and execution - well who made you the god of music then? That's not to say you can't BE fed up of something & discuss said fed-up-ness, but not to the extent of making amateur performers afraid of being ridiculed. The nice thing about the circle I have joined is that, as my husband remarked (tho he ma have been exaggerating just a little), you could fart in a glass and they would all say 'well farted'. And I think that's a good thing. The attitude not the farting.