The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99963 Message #1999349
Posted By: Mr Red
17-Mar-07 - 05:15 AM
Thread Name: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Subject: RE: It isn't 'Folk', but what is it we do?
Open Stage, song circle, come all ye, ballad session, acoustic session, jam, singaround
As (take yer pick) Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Big Bill Broonzy, Fats Waller have allegedly said. It's all folksinging - "I ain't never heard a horse sing"
For me it has to be folk singing/playing. If an electrical switch is involved it ain't folk singing - it is electronics. And I should know.
Or entertainment and there is more than enough of that at the flick of a switch.