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Thread #113491   Message #2417955
Posted By: M.Ted
19-Aug-08 - 03:17 PM
Thread Name: RE: have the American audiences gone?
Subject: RE: RE: have the AMERICAN audiences gone?
I don't get the "Thomas Kincade" comment--I don't think that was a fair comment, John Hardly-the set is more like TBN, and she looks a lot like Jan Crouch.

And, to be a bit serious--Ron, why does it make any difference that she is playing "Shennandoah" instead of say, "Humoresque"?--There is nothing about this performance that I can see that makes it folk music at all. It is Vegas-like entertainement, of the sort that looks oddly like TBN.

And the comparison to Copeland--sorry, but he didn't do anything like that. Here is some real American fiddle music,   Bonaparte's Retreat and halfway down is William H. Stepp's recording, followed by the amazing piece that Copeland based on it.

Copeland was a great composer, Stepp was a great country fiddler, and Celtic Women may be great entertainment, but it's neither of the above.