For years there have been online hootenannies. Their frequent "hootenannies" are open to anyone to share their musical or poetic talents. The Sunday hootenannies were good opportunities to collect donation money for rent. A folk music enthusiast, he began hosting regular hootenannies in 1999. During 1963, Ochs performed at New York's Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in hootenannies. Seeger would play at People's Songs events, called hootenannies, until the organization folded in 1949.