MTed, I know what you are talking about, but, I guess my original question was more about how you interact with the crowd. I love the music I play but I am afraid bad or good, I am first and foremost an entertainer. I just cringe when one of our group waxes on for 5 minutes about Tom Paxton or Gordon Lightfoot and their contributions to folk music while I watch the audience looking bewildered with that, "I just like the song" look on their face. There are 2 people im my group that are entertainers, the other 2 are musicians. They are very good at what they do, but when the song stops, they are at a total loss of how to keep the audience fresh and interested and having a good time. Whatever, I am not criticizing either faction, but just think it is interesting how we all approach the same situation entirely differently