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Thread #143925   Message #3325100
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
19-Mar-12 - 08:37 AM
Thread Name: Folk programmes on BBC 4 TV tonight
Subject: RE: Folk programmes on BBC 4 TV tonight
I do wish the media would stop recycling the same names over and over and over again. There is so much first-class but under-rated/under-exposed musical talent in Ireland, you just wouldn't believe it. A huge amount of this is in people who don't follow professional performing careers so you wouldn't expect to see them on telly; but there are enough others who do sing or play for a living, and deserve wider attention. (I agree with Dave Hanson about Solas, Furey & Gaughan, though - as Clive James once described something, the show was a Fabergé curate's egg.)