Pip Radish

My worry about this kind of session would be that proper tune players would start coming,

This hasn't happened at the Lewes Favourites sessions and we've been going ten years or more. There are several good sessions in the area and what happens there is very different.

The whole point was to help people get past the barrier of trying to get into session playing when, in the outside world, you'd hear a tune played three times very fast (well, not that fast, this is the South) once a month or less. At the LF we selected a set of tunes that were frequently played and then played through them slowly over and over again until people started floating out of their chairs or it came to a natural stop. This doesn't have a huge appeal to twiddle demons. When people outgrow it, they move on.

Of course, if it did happen, great, you've got a new session and you can start a new beginners session elsewhere or elsewhen.