If less than 5%of your material is political, you'd think in a band of 6, the offended party could sit out. You're certainly not overdoing it. I would temper the repertoire, depending on the venue but not cut it out. Also, when somebody brought up the subject of drinking songs, there's something that's way overdone in Irish music. I'd rather hear a protest song, even one I find offensive than a whole program of silly drinking songs to make us appear even more foolish than we sometimes already do. Why reinforce an unfortunate stereotype Slan, Rich