I'm a singer, not an instrumentalist, but that doesn't mean that I don't listen to instrumental music. One of the best fiddle sessions I ever heard was a purely English one at the National Festival some years ago - I can't describe how it differed from an Irish one, but it was definitely English in style as well as in content. It seemed to me that there was a precision and cleanness about the playing which perhaps in Irish and Scottish is disguised by ornamentation, but I don't really know - perhaps the likes of John Adams can tell us, as I believe he was involved. But to me it was inspirational!

Barbara