Me & the gang attented a festival recently in which according to the programme, an 'open session' would take place in one of the venues.

Expecting what we think of as session, we arrived to find it was a sort of hybrid of singaround & folk club with the participants all performing singly rather than all playing/singing along together.

The festival was in NW England on the Lancs/ Yorks border & I'm wondering if the concept of 'session' is generally different in that area or if it was just an idiosyncracy of that particular festival.

What think you?