Here's a true story to finish this off. Our town has a Renaissance (sp?) Fair every year, but I never go, so I don't get to hear the music.

Anyway, one year our little band decided to do a set of Irish traditional music (18th and 19th Century) for our church picnic. It so happened that nobody in the congregation ever said anything to about it. No feedback.

Later I asked the music director if she had heard any comments and she said, "Oh yes! People said they loved the music from the Renfest!"

Get it? appparently lots of performers at the festival are simply playing whatever "Celtic" stuff they've picked up rather than go to the effort of learning new music from the proper time period. And they've been doing it for enough years to get the general population used to the idea that 19th C. equals 16th or 17th.

Meanwhile, the management has been tormenting people about having hidden zippers in their costumes because they're not authentic. Honestly!

Don't they know that music is one of the most important things in life?