| From the Where2sing.com forum: born2sing: Yes, the host acting in the facilitator / influencer role is critical but the venue needs to be chosen to attract the locals as well as the followers. You can't always rely on your followers to sustain a gig if you've got more than one in the area. At some point you need to be numbero-one babysitter for your locals and that means listening to them. If they want moderate sound volume and oldies - thats what they get. If they want to be young, wild and rock-out - thats what they get. This doesn't mean saying no to choices out of the norm but it does mean influencing the style of the show according to the locals. A singer at odds with the locals can be handled in subtle ways. But once that songslip is handed in - it goes into the rotation and doesn't get dropped.
And never judge a book by its cover. I've been consistently surprised by amazing singers whom I would not have picked. For 99.999% of people its just a matter of finding the perfect matching song for the stage of singing development they are at.
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