On balance I'm with Shimrod, notwithstanding recalling the first time I got up in a folk club to sing a folk song. I was a teenager who to be fair was used to performing albeit in a rock band hiding behind effects and PA system, or in a youth orchestra where second violin could easily hide mistakes and nobody was staring at me.

The welcoming applause for my efforts is something I still remember.

But I also remember thinking that regardless of the polite applause, people prefer to be entertained if possible and to try and up my game each and every time I get up and sing.

I'm not convinced of singarounds as an evening of passive entertainment for the listeners as it is not always easy to introduce a song, the provenance of a traditional song, the context of a radio ballad, why you or Vin Garbutt or whoever wrote this particular folk song. Often it's starting to sing that makes others stop talking over you.