My friends and I are getting a band together to play traditional folk music. We hope to play at the Ohio Rennaisance Festival this year, and we're beginning to learn some songs. We have planty of arranged lyrics and enough instrumental stuff to have variety. Unfortunately, we are having a difficult time learning fresh music. A lot of the songs we are learning are ones we have heard at RenFest over the last few years, but we don't want to be like everyone else. The thing is, we've found that although lyrics are readily available, tunes and sheet music are not so easily available for songs we have never heard before. We're not really ready to write our own stuff, and we would really rather play traditional music if we do play at RenFest. I was wondering if anyone has any advice for a bunch of teenagers that are new to the scene?

Thanx- Keli