“When people got together to play musical instruments, they also stood in a circle so they could hear each other and blend in—an act of communal, participatory music-making, not a performance before a passive, non-music-making audience. This is still the practice today when people come together to play bluegrass music” (Gene Edward Veith, Honky-Tonk Gospel, p. 20).
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“This is still the practice today when people come together to play bluegrass music.”
And in Irish music sessions at a local pub near you. B-)