Thanks, Pete. I am well aware of local music opportunities. (I already distribute most of them to my mailing list.) I'm not looking for folks to play with at this time and am focusing on other music matters, myself. But there is a Mudcat permathread on song circles, etc., where you might post information as you have it.

We were discussing-- most recently in this thread-- music clubs as in the UK, and how they relate to the US scene. I'm hoping to hear from the UK folk about how population patterns differ and what they think is the "critical mass" needed to support a club, so that I can better understand the music cultural differences for my UK friends and so that I can relate my perspective to theirs. The differences in music culture are widespread and have been under discussion at Mudcat for several years. Just as these differences crept into this thread, they also tends to come up in other threads.

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Going back to the thread's original topic--

I had a phone call yesterday, a week after letting "the organizer" know that we had decided to decline the gig with our thanks for having been asked. That "organizer" had passed the whole event's planning (and music organizing) on to someone else, who was now wanting to let me know their regrets over last year's problems and their hopes that we might participate next year.

I could only sympathize, as he found himself suddenly in charge of something far more complex that he had anticipated, so I offered a few words of experience that might help him line up another group.

I was grateful to have had the breadth of responses and perspectives this thread generated, in the back of my mind. I calmly and cheerfully responded somewhat nebulously as to our interest, but with my sincere wishes that they have a great event.

~Susan