The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121329   Message #2647719
Posted By: GUEST,Tom Bliss
03-Jun-09 - 05:51 PM
Thread Name: To introduce songs, or not, and how?
Subject: RE: To introduce songs, or not, and how?
Singarounds are different. You have to take a cue from the others re the house rules. But even if intros are out of bounds there's always time for a couple of words between the last note and the applause.

Many people on the folk scene murmur the title of the song in that moment, and for a trad song that can often be enough.

What does frustrate me, though, is when people sing a 'cover' - a song by a living writer - but still just mutter the title at that point. (Frustrate? It makes me blinking fume)!

The other day someone actually said the name of the songwriter in that moment. I nearly got up and hugged him!