This is, of course, yet another of those threads that doesn't have a right/wrong answer.
-Kampervan


I hope I'm not the only person who would find it more interesting to discuss different culture's traditions regarding singing along with a solo performer and how & why those traditions change within particular groups (such as the points that Jack Campin made about New Zealand and the point that Ref made about Canada). But I suppose that is a whole 'nuther thread.

It seems clear that with regard to this subject that there is never going to be total agreement about what is proper to do in particular settings and what is not.

That said, I've found it interesting reading this thread and observing the group dynamics and seeing how people choose to make (or not make) their points. But at some point-to quote a well known American children's song-"the wheels of the bus [keep going] round and round".