if you do musicianing as a job, its often a bit solitary.

at a singaround you meet mates, hear their work in progress, have a chat about stuff, you meet new people.

anyway what else are you going to do - watch UK Gold, listen to disembodied voices come out of the stereo, study for s degree in folk music, argue with people on mudcat who once owned a longplayer of Martin Carthy, or it could have been Cat Stevens - they're very similar; both play guitars