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Rabbi-Sol Attracting old folks to young folk music (47) RE: Attracting old folks to young folk music 16 Nov 09

Yes Ron. We have a wonderful crop of young singer/songwriters on the folk scene today and I agree that what they are creating is great folk music. And I see in my venue as well as in others that I attend that the older folks do enjoy their music.

However, as my wife Fay pointed out after reading your initial post on this thread, they are not attracting YOUNGER AUDIENCES and therein lies the problem.

If they can not attract younger audiences to their type of "folk" music, they are going to have to go more towards punk rock & heavy metal just to make a living.

What happens when we, the Geritol generation, are no longer on the scene? Who will be there to listen?

SOL

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