No exclusion of folk writers just limiting them to their fair share.

Workshop peformances are easy to do.

You are lucky to have local songs in the USA there are none and all are dependent upon those the pros select.

Again local music costs less than jet set imported pros the added costs create barriers to participation and that is not good.

Lining out the songs- yes great but tedious. sort of like a pre paper and writing method. Believe me hand out songs and people will join in without the distraction it really works. I have gotten a few musicians to do this with great reviews.

Google adds the way of the future however access to all the pages is free and there are a lot of pages and many pages of song collections all FREE you dont have to pay google when you look at the pages but if you wish to click on the adds you may. Interesting thing how google selects the ads mosttimes they are related context so perhaps those looking at the page will find them a service other times they are way off. My alternative would be to go to pay per view which I never would do.

Conrad