Singing on Conference Calls and Zoom

Subject: RE: Singing on Conference Calls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 04:28 AM

And I think it would be really nice if we could have a weekly Mudcat singaround online. Any ideas for how to set it up?

-Joe-

Subject: Singing on Conference Calls
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 03:57 AM

To help control the risks of coronavirus, we cancelled our monthly Sacramento Song Circle gathering until June, so we'll miss three months. Somebody suggested that we have a song circle by conference call this evening, so we did. We used FreeConferenceCall.com. About 15 people called in, and it was fun. There was one problem - there was a delay in the sound from some of the callers, so it was very hard for us to sing together. When we did our International Mudcat Singarounds on HearMe in the 1990s, only one person sang at a time, and there was no problem with sound delays. But our Sacramento group does community singing, and we found this hard on the setup we had.

Can anybody recommend free conference call services that would work well for singarounds? I think a lot of us are encountering cancelled singing sessions, and we have to find a way to feed our habit.

-Joe-