In answer to the question about tunes being played in a circle, I understand that Cape Breton sessions tend to be like that where an individual plays a couple of tunes and then it moves on to the next person in the circle as opposed to an Irish or Scottish (or other) session where people start tunes whenever they can and everyone joins in. A great story related to me by Finn Mcginty of Seattle: He was at an irish Session in NY. Two guys were sitting at the bar and one of them had a banjo. He approached the session players and asked if he could join them. They all said fine. So when they finished playing a set he started off on a bluegrass tune and they put their instruments down and listened. When he finished they played another set of reels and he followed with another bluegrass tune whereupon they put their instruments down. After this went on for a while he thanked them, got up and sat down by his friend at the bar and snorted "hmh, they dont even know the Foggy Mountain Breakdown!". Petr.