Genie, when I got there, I hardly even noticed the dance band but I did notice a whole lot of people singing together upstairs. I think you folks had it going on sister. There were some other rooms available to jam in upstairs but yours was where everything was happening, food, drink and song.

Reggie, when you got there the band had, indeed, toned it down. But when I got there, about 11:30 or 12 , I think, the would-be singers were all sitting in the food-and-booze room, just talking, because the band was so loud and they wouldn't turn it down, even when asked. I suggested to Martha Cohen [see, Mark, they're EVERYWHERE!] and Bruce Baker and others that we just go ahead and start sining--or singing, as the case may be-- so we did. Nobody used instruments, we just sang (sea chanteys, stuff with choruses, etc.).
We discovered that the auditorium was empty, but to get folks to move there, we'd've had to be organized ... .
Had the dance band been quieter when the party started, the singers and jammers would've probably divided themselves spontaneously into two groups, in the two large upstairs rooms, with somewhat different kinds of music in the two (e.g., jammers in one and singer-focused in the other). I don't think so many folks would've given up and headed for the Wawona quite so soon, and there would've been 2 or 3 times as many of us there when you arrived. [The original idea, I thought, was for folks to go to the party site till they closed and then to continue singing ad infinitum afterwards at the Wawona.]

The party and the music there WERE fun, but I'm comparing it to the days when it was at the Monroe Center or even the Mountaineers.

Genie