Pip Radish, you're right - there aren't many rooms where acoustic instruments, or voices for that matter, need amplification, including, in my fairly wide experience of them, village halls, but our club room, in a concert situation, as opposed to singaround, *does* need it, otherwise, people at the back of the room simply can't hear properly. Believe me, I wish it were otherwise!

And we're still an 'Acoustic' club on the nights that we have singarounds nor use mics, to indicate that we are not purely 'folk', traditional or otherwise, and that we are 'acoustic', as opposed to having 'electric' instruments. What else would you call it?

Barbara