If you will be doing most of the work, do it your way, get musicians you like, set up song circles the way you like it. Decide ahead of time if you want good music or pleasant interactions. That will relate to blue book versus not blue book. Start out by thinking in advance what you want and don't want..a specific traditional kind of music...heartfelt people singing yellow submarine (and there is nothing wrong with that)...lots of singer songwriters, lots of sea shanties..very multicultural or very Scottish traditional.

Or it might not matter to you..whatever evolves evolves and that is probably great..But if you have something specific in mind get it right out in the open and put it in writing and talk about it openly. It is your right to set it up as you like. If others are going to be heavily involved, it is their right too. If one group likes blues, another likes hula, another likes Afrocelt, another likes Robert Burns and nothing else..let them take over specific functions on specific nights featuring those types of music. Don't try to be all things to all people. mg