We tried this idea of linking songs once at a song circle and it didn't work very well because the level of most people was too low. Many folks had trouble because their repertoires were not big enough. Some people knew a lot of songs but needed to practice anything before they performed it so they couldn't easily pull something out of their songbag.

On the other hand, we once did this on stage at a folk festival workshop. Talk about pressure. It worked very well because people learned quickly that, if you talk long enough, you can link any song to any other song. Also, we learned to help the next person by picking a song that is easily linked to like a train song. In one case, we picked a song that was easily linked to a song that we knew the next person wrote!

Bev and Jerry