Hi, Riggy -

We haven't round robined in several years! I did it as a temp thing around 2001, to spread things around after I saw that fewer and fewer people were leading songs. it did the trick, and things got back on track since I stopped with it, though it was unwieldy, and never meant to be a permanent arrangement. On rare occasion since then round robined down the line only in the front row among the six or seven peformer types, just to give newcomers a sense of what chanteys are all about, but hardly have the need to even do that anymore. It sometimes takes gentle prodding, but many more people are now singing.

Chanteyranger