Chouxfleur, well said - your venture sounds so like one or two of my favourite clubs that I wonder about your identity!

SJ - as others have said, having notes to remind you in case you forget the words is a million miles from what I've sometimes seen, where the singer faltered on the words even where they were right in front of him because the light wasn't good - he quite clearly hadn't learned a single syllable of it!

Sessions are another thing (well, they are a thousand different things) but a folk club is in the entertainment business and the club organisers and the floor singers need to make an effort in the ways chouxfleur described.

Anahata