shimrod, you are both right and wrong, what is happening at your local singaround is encouraging, because singers are singing the songs and realising that they are everybodies songs not just a version sung by joe bloggs or seth lakeman or some other star,
mean while there are still people who think the white cockade is a "show of hands" song . the most important thing is that the somgs are sung and that every person puts their own individual interpretation upon them.
let us take Steve Turner and Dick Miles, two singers who sing traditional songs with a concertina, yet both instantly recognisable and completely different, and that is how it should be.