I used to worry about the tweeness (Sweet/cloying oh it a problem to defined twee - but such a good word) of a lot of Scottish music especially where it touched on old time popular music and the scottish country type music ( I belong to Glasgow done as a waltz etc - just think of some of the Irish Show bands). More recently there seems to have been many albums called - Celtic Inspirations which is cloying - mainly keyboard versions of traditional tunes. These tend to be authentic and can be defined as 'Celtic' in the popular understanding of the word but the character of the music has been lost.

I don't believe that the tradition must stay stationary (although we must not loose what we have already). There is a great deal of very good scottish music which is progressing and mixing with other styles. Sometimes it work sometimes it doesn't but a least we are trying. ( well not me personally - but you know what I mean.

I think I've strayed from the point - but everybody has a hobbyhorse don't they.

Julie