Marion, you come shout in our church if you like.

IL, what you want to do is set a tone and then let it all go from there, and work with whatever develops. It will probably be different every time anyway, and it ought to be!

You can try to be more firm, but people are just going to rebel! For instance, bookstore wandering is one of our favorite day-off activities. I'm in a pretty silly mood, usually, because days off are pretty rare, and Hardi and I egg each other on. So we'd be the ones at the far end of the place perusing cookbooks, hollering out an occasional "Wha-HOOO!" if we were asked not to applaud. But we'd also be the ones that would come up after, tell you how great you were, and get to know you and invite you to jam sometime. We might even have our axes out in the car, as we often do in nice weather for picking in the park. (Might buy lunch too, you never know with us!)

Just focus on the music once you've got things rolling-- it will be what it will be, and when you've had more experience doing this, you'll have your own way of starting and leading the experience. You don't have to know all about this ahead of time-- let it unfold, and have fun seeing where it goes.

And dang! You get PAID? Cool!

~Susan