It depends entirely upon your choir though... a classically trained chorus doing folk songs always sounds too 'stuffy', the songs sound stilted or forced and they don't seem to flow as naturally as a group of people in a singaround would. It's a difference you have to accept if you've got a formal choir who have little or no exposure to folk song except through 'Singing Together' on the radio when they were at school, or the jokey 'finger in the ear' stuff seen on TV all too often.

There are lots of arrangements, it's up to the musical director and the choir members themselves to bring them to life.

LTS