This brings up more questions, as others in thesession.org discussion consider sharing tunes at home a session, even if it is not a regularly scheduled event, which means in the early days of the USA, if people got together to play Irish music to share tunes, they were having an Irish session. My impression is that there are some definite criteria for using the term "session" rather than house party, ceili, playing with my friends, etc. So, can we define "session" criteria? Does a session have to be in a place where people meet at a regular time to play tunes together (not for a dance)? Any other thoughts on other criteria that makes the event an "Irish session" to establish the earliest time of Irish sessions in the USA?

Alice