Amen, Art! ...and one of the ways times are changing is that more & more the songs are being sung AT us, rather than learned & shared. *I* am fortunate to have sung along WITH you and learned songs FROM you...to be sung just to myself sometimes.

One of the places 'audiences' have gone is those places where you must remain an audience ...and folks get the idea that it is an either/or situation where you are either a practiced performer or part OF an audience.

"And it was not so when Bess did reign,
And this old hat was new."