Some of the jams here run pretty big- the local fiddle association here has a largish monthly gathering that gets at least fifty people, most of which sort of mill around and form amorphous blobs (say, seven or eight people to a blob) that occupy the gray-blue area between bluegrass and old time. People are very nice, but it's a lot of noise, especially on account of the number of fiddles. (Ivan's Irish session experiences sound eerily familiar.) Still, I bet Mike Marshall wouldn't have this problem- I'm going to work steadily on trying to beef up my volume for a while.
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