"I stand by my comments. Mixed singing and tune events could be sucessful, but only if and when some singers were generally less egocentric, listened, participated in and prepared to show more tolerance towards other forms of music."

Fine, stick to your principles, I agree with most of them, but I must insist that you don't just target singers.... the same argument is valid and applicable to singers and instrumentalists especially the bastard who insists on starting a tune when someone is already halfway through a song, and there is no excuse because the singer was sitting NEXT to the instrumentalist.

Mixed events are successful, it happens at folk clubs all over England.

Kitty has it on the head. If an event is ADVERTISED as a singing event - e.g., the Wareham Wail, then don't expect a warm welcome for the 48 strong accordion band. If it isn't advertised as anything, expect everything.

LTS