Fair comment gerry. I was clearly being facetious and unhelpful. I have a number of high horses but I hopped amplification was not one of them.

I am surprised you know of us. We have played Ceilidhs unamplified, except for the caller, with 20 - 30 musicians and it seems to work ok. We have played with amplification once. The concensus was we would be happier to play smaller places acoustically and explore amplification if anybody should ask us to play at a larger venue.

I guess this is way off the OP but we are keen to explore the acoustic ceilidh (AC) for a number of reasons:

1. We don't need PA for most of what we do
2. It's tricky to amplify and ballance 20+ musicians
3. AC is cheap
4. I think it gets back to the roots of what country dance bands did when they played all those great tunes sometime in the last 3 or 4 hundred years.
5. It's much easier on the ears

OK maybe I am on a high horse. It's nonsense to be 'against' PA and I am not. People should do what they want and we will all decide who to go and listen to.

Cheers

L in C#