Were do you go to sessions Jon?, sounds like the ones you go to start nice and early. To be fair I've not been to a regular session recently, apart from the pre-barnsley folk club one that jsut runs for an hour - but my memories of the last one I went to was that it didn't get going until about 9:30 adn I feel like leaving at 10:30 most nights! (lightweight I know).

When playing out in public, generally I get the impression that this sort of music is well received, although this is usually in bars at folk festivals where people expect that sort of thing anyway.

Jaqui, the number of boarded up/to let pubs round barnsley now is astonishing (especially ones that had a large smoking clientel)- i think it would be quite easy to get a pub to agree to let musicians
play around here at the minute

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