don you said that those who got access to stages had to pass professional or adequate muster. Sorry you said it. You did not want to hear hard to listen to voices. Discrimination pure and simple.

If you "have" songs competance is not a matter for consideration.

No it is painless to present songs in a way that is enjoyable and educational at the same time. Stop defending your right to ignore education.

Think of the act as sharing and not performing.

The concept is to have fun but to put it into balance. Fun is not the only reason. Much much more.

Its work to teach easy to just entertain.

but if we dont teach once the internet folds, libraries are neglected (as they are being already) we will have no oral tradition or hardly any to fall back upon. We need to grow the oral tradition each time folk is applied to an event.

We also need maximum access.

Its simple. You cant depend on recording or curation. Look to history if you know any. Libraries get burned, recordings get brittle or obsolete. But if a song is passed on in the oral tradition the worst is that it may have constructive modification.

We by relying on professionals for the most part and recording are eliminating the means by which the tradition has survived.

We need to re-cultivate the oral tradition which should be easy enough with a few tolerances and adaptations of the status quo

Conrad