ubject: RE: should folk music be called fake music
From: Jim Carroll - PM
Date: 10 Oct 14 - 10:30 AM

"Vic you live in England, how can you be better informed than me,"
Vic is right.
Yes - Comhaltas still has a following for competitions and it had the ear of the government as far as finances are concerned, but nowadays, that it is as far as it goes.
Since the beginning of the 2000. the music has taken off here, totally without, and often in spite of CCE influence.
ITMA, one of the finest archives of traditional music in the world, orperates without any input whatever without the input of Comhaltas, in fact, since it was established in 1987, C.C.E has been forced to clean up its act and put its own house in order, it has some way to go before it sorts out its own holdings
When the first Willie Clancy Summer School was mooted, CCE refused to be part of it unless competitions were included - the locals refused and went ahead to become the most successful and influential traditional music school in Ireland and encouraging many other similar ventures.
Nowadays, it is possible to attend schools, singing and music week-ends all over Ireland, without a glimpse of CCE or its policies - traditional music has 'taken its own feet, as they say over here.
Clare alone hosts The Willie Clancy Summer School, The West Clare Singing Festival, The Russell Family Festival, The Mrs Galvin Weekend, The Mrs Crotty Concertina Weekend, The Willie Keane weekend, the Feakle Traditional Music Festival, The Traditional Music and set Dancing Festival in Kilrush, the Ballyvaughan Singing weekeend, the Corofin Traitional Music Festival.... and several other events
CCE has 1 annual event - the annual competition based Fleadh Nua in Ennis.
Miltown Malbay hosted the County Fleadh a couple of years ago, a dismal, poorly attended affair.
Some years ago Cpmhaltas entered into a dispute with one of its own branches (again) which ended in the forcible eviction of people who had raised millions of euros to build new premises at Clontarf   
THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF
Comhaltas is clinging on by its fingernails to the power it once had.
It has long been referred to on the Irish scene as Comhaltas Interruptus
Jim Carroll
well Jim seems you have contributed to that thread, looks like you could not resist having a go at CCE, but once again your facts are wrong, neither is there a vendetta , but whilst you or anyone else for example. phil edwards post.. incorrect stuff , i will reply.