The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66960   Message #1115692
Posted By: alanabit
14-Feb-04 - 04:09 AM
Thread Name: bbc folk awards
Subject: RE: bbc folk awards
As much as anyone Roger. Folk is for everyone from the academic studying ethnology to the weekender who occasionally joins in a chorus of the "Wild Rover".
I am interested in the idea of capturing the essence of a good folk club (or session) on television. For sure, a very staged concert is something very different and is a lot easier for camaremen to film. The problem for the TV people is that they can never afford to have moments on film when nothing is happening (in the TV sense of that phrase). I think it would be worth putting a good folk club on television, but it would certainly involve a fair bit of cutting and editing. Watching TV and going to a folk club are two different experiences. This reminds me a bit of the debate which we had about the difference between an album and a live performance.