Well, my main point about the electric band was the amount of space it took up, so excluding many. But I don't really see the need for a corner band, certainly of that sort of size. On approach the bass could be heard before anything else. And no, I don't like trumpet or sax on folk music but that is a matter of taste, and I think the sound of electric instruments is usually wrong in character is a song-session. Fine for a stage band or an e-ceilidh band but the song-session is about people together. One of the problems of the session was that ingress to it was all but impossible, and unless you were right in it was difficult to hear.

I only saw one young stepper. I did hear more than one other attendee saying that personally they would strangle winsome child performers, for preference, which seemed a little extreme, but that led me to infer that there were other such performers, and if other attendees were saying that then there is a point of view to be considered.

Yes, I thought the photocopied handout was a little sparse.

Kev the Clogs relays above that he heard an apparent organiser say, about 10 minutes before the concert was due to start, that the hall heating had not been on but had then just been turned on.

But, I repeat, an excellent idea and something I would definitely try getting to again, the sooner the better.