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Thread #134469 Message #3062020
Posted By: Jim Carroll
27-Dec-10 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: What is it that makes folk radio a success?
Subject: RE: What is it that makes folk radio a success?
"Classical has a diverse body of work" Highly debatable that it's any more diverse than folk! "and a much larger audience compared to folk music" We have lost much of our audience though, IMO, trying to 'please 'em all' I can remember Lloyd claiming that folk had a greater audience than clssical at the height of the revival, and I can believe it. None of which has anything whatever to do with what you present and how you produce it. "Your model for radio is much different than ours" Don't know where you are, or what you think my music is - but I spent nearly forty active years as part of the British revival - and the only difference between Ireland and the UK is that over here they have guaranteed that the songs and music will survive into the next generation, and that hasn't happened by accident. Jim Carroll