I posted this on another thread recently.

"Came back from our weekly music gathering (we are not a folk club and I definitely don't think of us as being primarily traditional but see below!)

High Barbary
A Hundred Years Ago
Unknown Country song
Fol-de-rol-de-riddle-i (not sure of real name)
Thousands or More
Tell Me Ma
Adieu sweet nancy
Country song
Close to the Wind
Set of three fiddle tunes
Love in America
Blues in D (for Kate Mcgarrigle)
Accordion Tune
Second Accordion Tune
Mountains of Mourne
Set of three fiddle tunes
Hole in My Bucket
Shepherd Song
My Love Has Gone
Put Out the Lights
Set of Three Fiddle Tunes
Cousin Jack
Country Song
Galway to Graceland
Sailors Life
Set of three fiddle tunes
Unknown drugs song
Northern Tide
At Seventeen
I Can Hew
Fathom the Bowl
Stormy Winds Do Blow(?)
Vincent
Bring Us a Barrel
Both Sides of the Tweed
Three Score and Ten
One Starry night
Too Long (?)
Sisters of Mercy
Lord franklyn
Big River

Hmmm.... more traditional than I thought."

Why don't people just get out and play what they want to rather than constantly bleating and moaning about how people are breaking things and spoiling things?

Perhaps I'm lucky that I have rather broader tastes than many and can have a pleasant evening playing and listening to the above but equally can enjoy the following that I am doing over the next four weeks - playing a mix of jazzy, blues and even pop tunes with my wife in a pub nr Selby, playing rock and soul to a couple of hundred vets at a black tie dinner and dance at a hotel, playing with my son, wife and a friend doing a mix of original songs and things we enjoy and an acoustic gig playing modern stuff from Duffy to Lady Gaga to anything else we fancy. And not for a moment be concerned about anything apart from enjoying ourselves and hoping the various audiences enjoy it as much as we do.

Music of all sorts will be there long after I'm gone.

Perhaps there will be another blues revival? Or jazz may make a comeback... (my son who was 18 yesterday was given a copy of Bitches Brew for his birthday by a 17 year old friend. Very hard for good music to die and it without doubt pops up where you least expect it to)