I don't mind bleats from the cheap seats. There is nothing more pathetic than a loser rationalizing his "bad luck". My column is for those, looking to succede and, until they do, eager for tips to swuccess. May I request that those of you, who are cynical and resentful of outside advise, haunt some thread that more meets with their approval.
I have been a folksinger all my life and I have enjoyed it, immensely.
I hope to encourage others to continue spreading the songs of cultures that live, today, only in the songs. My message is that a decent living can be made in trad. Lord knows, there aare many who have earned their bread in the field. Here, in Philadelphia, I know a dozen full time folksingers and that doesn't even include the many who serve the Irish community.
I have shared my information and contacts with anyone who requests them. It is an attitude I picked up when I lived in Dublin in the late 60s. Everyone at O'Donaghue's was so supportive to an American interloper and I have never forgotten that.