jenithea, a "blue clicky thing" is Mudcatese for the underlined words that you click and that connect you to other places (done by an HTML code). The only reason the term has not caught on worldwide is that other sites use other colours (why? and why would anyone go anywhere else, but I digress).

black walnut, I am the worst person to ask about song circles. I have only been to a couple in my life, and I hated them, and never went back. My image is of folk elites who wear medals on their chest saying things like "10,000 Irish Ballads Learned" and "Get Out of the Way While I Dazzle you with my Fiddle Playing", and setting out bear traps to catch and mock the unwary who presume to sing something they don't know all the verses to. I especially remember the fakery: the fake assumption that we were all equals, when really we were there to be an audience for the few. I hated it passionately since I hate any form of false inclusion: where you graciously let the peasants in as long as they subtley know their place. Better to overtly say: stay away from our clique, grub. At least that is honest. I would have burned the building down and shoved the instruments down their throats if I had had the chance (non-violently, of course!).

I hasten to add that these experiences were light-years away from anything I have recently come into contact with through Rick F (not song circles, just meeting folkies in Toronto, all terrific, generous, thoughtful). Just bad luck, a long time ago, elsewhere.
yours, Peter T.