At a small indoor concert on the weekend the music was great but many of the lyrics were hard to hear over the instruments. As I was sitting very near the front I was able to hear the performers directly to some extent as well as from the speakers. It seemed to me that the singers were singing to themselves with the microphone half an inch away. In an unplugged environment the front row may have heard them but not those at the back. Perhaps some singers need to learn to project more, although being too loud in a microphone is not good either. Presumably this is part of the stage craft that has to be learned?