Oh! Happiness and joy! How great to hear such intelligent comments about the dread "C" word. Of course I've come to expect that from Mudcatters by now. Here in Australia, even though I have an American husband who has studied and sung American music all his life, I still get lectured at by ill-informed people. I'm constantly being told that the roots of all the songs we sing, as well as the roots of all bluegrass and old-timey songs are "Celtic" - by which they mean "Irish". I think that the makers of several documentories shown here over the last decade are to blame. I do wish, as I've just said on another thread, that the
everything's-Irish fashion would go away. Joy