only a guide --- only a guide.
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PEL --- Public entertainment licence (rules that cost money)-
assinine legislation- write to your MP or tell "Tourist Information" it is stiffling
the voice of real people who enrich the fabric of society for no more reward
than they be allowed to entertain themselves and any delighted tourist to our
land (or within it). AND particularly do it in a convivial watering hole.
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ish.--- approximately, sort of, _____ I think!.
Folk club --- more formal, sit and listen (or else), entrance
fee, paid performers, OR the organiser want it to be called a "folk club"!
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sess --- is / has been reported as / is mostly / or otherwise
- a jam session. ie mostly music, anyone who can find a seat and doesn't play
too loudly can play all night.
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beg sess --- beginners session, where some of us started.
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w/s --- workshop, beginners and experienced swap ideas. Learning
as well as playing.
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dance --- dancing is part of it, or the only part of it sometimes.
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acc sess, acoustic --- not purely folk, may include storytelling,
pop & poetry. May also be slightly amplified!
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SAR --- is a singaround or come-all-ye. ie one person (or
collective) is invited to contribute a spot usually in some sort of rotation around
the room with a leader organising it.
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spots --- organisers allow individuals 3 - 9 minutes in the
spotlight (on stage), usually in the first half.
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open stage --- spots (in an American accent).
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open mic.--- amplified spots (in a Yankee accent).
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bar music --- paid performers, usually there are no spots
or open mic or that kind of thing but you can try!