At Sharp's Folk Club we LIKE ballads, Child or otherwise.

We like, and get, variety: long/medium/short, traditional/modern, tragic/comic, accompanied/unaccompanied, etc.

Occasionally someone has split an especially long ballad into two installments, in the first and second halves of the evening. Finnbar Wall did this recently with "Chantelle de Champignon", but on a previous occasion he sang it straight through.

Richard