Jim Carroll

Unless you consider 'wanting to sing' a standard - you do.

Having slight trouble parsing that sentence. No, I don't consider 'wanting to sing' to be a standard. I consider it a reason to give someone the opportunity to sing.

It is not; it is an abandoning of standards.

No, it is recognising where the responsibilty for standards lies.

Why on earth should anybody who doesn't want to sing ask to?

I have no idea, but, according to you, wanting to sing immediately disqualifies anybody from being capable of doing so.

Therefore you are giving your club over to anybody who walks through your door,

Yes.

whether they can sing or not

How are we supposed to know before we put them on? (He asks for the umpteenth time.)

Howard Jones

Snail, there are those who argue that the most important aspect of folk music and folk clubs is participation, and that people should sing.

Indeed there are but I don't see how that justifies the line - "I realise there is a gulf between those who think standards should apply to folk music and those who don't".

My comment was not aimed at you or your club, and I am not trying to reopen our previous discussion.

Neither was I. I was just responding to something you said.