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Thread #144099   Message #3330618
Posted By: GUEST,FloraG
29-Mar-12 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Disappearance of communal singing in US
Subject: RE: Disappearance of communal singing in US
Joe F
sadly very few. There are some traditions still around. In Sheffield the pubs play host to Christmas carol singing, with their own tunes and words.( though I think the dates are posted in advance ). Some pubs have karioke machines.
If there is a festival in the town, you may well find a session which just happens. I've sung in most of the pubs in Rochester when the Sweeps festival is on, but increasingly the pubs have tended to go for middle of the road paid bands with PA to suit the lager drinking massses. At the beginning of the Faversham hop festival, we started a session in the nearest pub to the camp site, and it has now become a tradition, although never in the programme, but most of the good singers find out about it.
FloraG.