I've seen battle lines drawn after Festival concerts, where everyone gets together to "jam" or sing songs with choruses. There's been some openly expressed antagonism flowing between the two groups, which eventually find their own little space to do their thing, with very little cross-polination. It could also be asked (over here) why songs without choruses don't seem welcome in some gatherings. I realize that everyone likes to sing along, but it limits the music if songs without choruses are second-class citizens. Now, down in D.C., they know how to do sing-arounds where ballads are as welcome as sea chanties or gospel songs with great choruses.

I love 'em all, even though I don't play many "toons." That's partly a lack of ability... tunes make me nervous, but mostly because my first love is singing.

Jerry