Thanks for the suggestion, but the problem is not a lack of monthly or even weekly dances (in some areas), but that the music is regarded as ONLY fit to be danced to, certainly not listened to.

Impossible to get folks to sit down long enough to LISTEN to anything, let alone SONGS, for crying out loud. When we were trying to run the folk club I spoke of, I heard people say that they thought it was boring to listen to someone play and/or sing and then they'd get up and leave.

I've also noticed that there is a disturbing trend amongst the local dance bands: they all have repertoires that they regard as theirs and theirs alone. Heaven help the dance band that dares to play a tune played by another band!