Hello, all

I am wondering about something. I am currently in the transiton of becoming a amateur performer.

For about 5 years now, I have been playing mostly folk music. I been listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Stan Rogers, and other Maritime Celtic Bands.

My concern is when singing songs from a particular artist in public. For example, I like playing Stan Rogers tunes. And I want to keep the air of a tune, the way the Stan Rogers wrote it in. Since I don't have a great baritone voice as Stan Rogers had, I have put the capo on the 2nd fret to play one of his tunes. It is going to be in a different key, but I would like keep the air of the song as it was written.

My question is it alright to doing this? Or I am going to be one of those musicians that want be a Gordon Lightfoot/Stan Rogers wannabe types?

Thanks for your time,

Steven G.