The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113071   Message #2404167
Posted By: Alan Day
03-Aug-08 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: Where have the audiences gone?
Subject: RE: Where have the audiences gone?
Has anyone thought of taking the Folk Club to visit?
I was interested in the article above re moving to a synagogue and finding a new audience. I have enjoyed a visit to school giving a talk on concertinas,using a few CD tracks to show different types of playing and getting them to sing The Twelve Days of Christmas.I had two groups from five to seven and from eight to eleven. Certainly the best audience I have ever had. I know that the local Infants school sing folk songs as my Grand Daughter sings them to me. A group of musicians and singers could get an interesting act together aimed at children and from that may develop a few of the next generation of Folk Artists.
Al