You're not getting it, Jim.

Like the caterpillar in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", a word means exactly what I want it to mean. By "session" I mean a gathering of singers and musicians who play communally together for each other - which is the raison d'etre of the gathering - not a showcase for the better musicians to entertain while the lesser ones gather round in hushed awe. That's what might happen in a folk club or a singaround in my book. Once again, you're talking in "club" terms - but we're not discussing clubs here.

It seems petty to argue about semantics, but it's important here because you're basing your inevitable acid criticisms of this and that on an event which, from your description, is the antithesis of what I mean by a session. To extrapolate your inevitable criticism of the British folk scene - clubs, sessions, singarounds - from that extrapolation is inevitably flawed.

Enough said, I think.