The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145001   Message #3354332
Posted By: Phil Edwards
22-May-12 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: Folk Club / Session Etiquette
Subject: RE: Folk Club / Session Etiquette
So you are against solo singing in clubs

In case this was aimed at me, when I said I was in favour of people joining in "at the right time", I meant "on choruses and refrains". (I'll tolerate people joining on a repeated last line, or on a repeated first verse; people merrily pitching in on verses is just rude, though.)

Not only do I think joining in on choruses is OK, I think it's a bad sign when audiences don't. Audiences in chairs-facing-the-stage FCs - in my limited experience of same - are particularly bad for this. I once did Lowlands at a local FC: eight verses, sixteen refrains, not a peep out of the lot of them. It made it a long three minutes.