embo, everything in life is a mixed blessing if it's a blessing at all. As I look at this thread, it does seem that you listed a whole lot more songs than anybody else. At our local events, we find that it's better to leave a bit of silence, than to have only the extraverts sing. (Shy people take longer to speak up.) Maybe you could do like doesterr, and make sure you let, say, at least ten minutes go by before you start another song. Leave gaps for the shy people, because nowadays it's hard to get hold of those PowderMilk Biscuits before the hearme session on a Sunday night so they need all the help they can get.

All this from someone who listens from the kitchen, most weeks, or hears a fragment of a song as she walks by and stops to hear the rest.... so I do realize it ain't mostly my business.

I did sing on Sunday, just coming home from a party I had left because I was too darned tired. So, I did just one song right after I got home.

I sang "Mary on the Wild Moor."

Learned it from Helen Schneyer's album, "Sacred, Somber and Silly." (I think it was that one.) Who was it said they collect Mary songs? Helen's albums are available from Folk Legacy.