"going by Manchester's very pop Commonwealth Games opening ceremony" (me).

Manchester is a very pop city, WAV, giving us some of the finest & uniquely English popular music of all time; The Smiths, The Fall, Joy Division, New Order, Oasis, Freddy & the Dreamers, Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, The Hollies et al. See Here for a full list...(IB)...frankly, as with Ewan MacColl, I, from Manchester way, would rather ramble; and pop derived from AMERICAN religious music - The Beatles even tried talking in American accents! God help us.
To IE: I listen to quite a lot of Scottish Gaelic radio, and it's mostly authentic unaccompanied singing but also with Scottish pipes, harps, etc. - the only thing I don't like is the Scottish Gaelic tradition of mimicking Amerindian/native American chants and drums.