Me: This is more likely when you're trying to get the vocals audible past a full band though - rarely in a folk venue.

Charlotte: so "full" bands don't play at "folk-venues" in your part of the world?

Full bands (by which I'd say a minimum of three members) *are* less common at folk clubs than singletons or pairs. And my point was that the soundman doesn't often have to crank the vocals up to feeding-back levels to compete with the other instruments in a folk venue - even for a folk band, that's rare.

Graham.