Two different creatures: one, a song circle - sedate, circular, lots of Blue Book of Death aficionados. Two, a raucous, booze-inspired mass singing of the "big" songs - choruses absolutely required, shanties, hunting songs, no creeping Jesus songs. We call these "porch songs" because they happen on our porch at the Princeton Traditional Music Festival, 17-19 August this year, in BC, Canada. www.princetontraditional.org.

Jon