I hope the recession will get more people together to sing and play generally (as I've said in other threads). Folk singarounds especially are a cheap way of providing people with decent (local) entertainment for the price of a drink or so.

And the ethos is superior to consuming the Big Names hyped by the music industry (or the overrated cronies loved by local folk cliques).

And who knows - someone who enjoys a singaround might start another on a different night - or in a different town and get thousands more involved with folkie type music generally - and showing thousands more to rea that making entertainment together is far more fun than paying to be a passive punter.

Ian Fyvie