Jim I agree (ish!)
Horses (no not that sort!)
To Precis.
1. A session (as has been described) of a boxing day pub afternoon, with a few Singers/Musicians, just having fun. Member of the Community (pub regular) asks for (insert name hear. At Henry, Liverpool, Whatever) and the musos oblige. The next 10 minutes turns into "FolkieOkie" Badly sung manglings of words/tunes. probably going off the rails half way through the second verse. I have no problem with that. They've all had a few. and you can bet that 30 minutes later someone will ask for At Henry again, having forgotten that someone else had already murdered it!
But, No-ones getting paid, so, no harm done (except to my eardrums)

2 Folk Club (Singers Night stylee) Well, depends where you are are. The Volly at Sidmouth is a pretty safe bet for great songs, normally well sung. But. I have been to singarounds at other places, when nobody could perform at all......but the perpetrator will insist on doing Tam Lyn...very slowly in a variety of keys. and if I ever hear Matty Groves butchered again....

If you get lucky there may be someone, (normally a beginner either song or tune who is just discovering the music) who will be interesting and worth listening to. Some of my favourite players have only been playing for a few months.

But, sadly some of these singarounds become the fiefdom of whoever is running it and their accolytes, who are more than happy just to churn out the same music that they've done in the Rat and Parrot on a Thursday, "because we always do it. That makes it traditional..."
Yeah Right!

3 More concert style venues.
Guest (Don't play his repertoire!)
Possible picked residents (The Bothy club springs to mind. Several varied acts of high standard as the warm up acts for the main guest, very enjoyable)

4 Music sessions.

I think I'll leave that for another time. don't get me started on the lack of tolerance in music sessions. You think you singers have problems!!