Suibhine
I feel its a shame you ended up in a back room. With the morris we often got comments like ' its nice to see you lot back again' when we played/ sung in the main bar. Some customers would bring their own instruments along for their annual outing knowing we were going to be there. I was given some advice by an elderly relative - when playing for a non folk audience try to do 1/3 songs or tunes they will know. Seems to work for this sort of audience.
FloraG.