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Thread #155357 Message #3658264
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
07-Sep-14 - 09:14 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
I was sitting on the quay this afternoon at Weymouth listening to a group of shanty men give a really nice concert. I couldn't help thinking about all this doom and gloom about English trad folk in the clubs.
I don't remember all these shanty crews in the old days. thats a comparatively recent development that surely gives the lie to all these dire pronouncements . you should get another informant about English folk clubs Jim.
After the shanty men - there was a group called Kadia, a young trio doing mainly trad material. there are a lot of young people getting involved nowadays.
i think what attracts them is that instantly they do trad - they become part of something big. in comparison the singer / songwriter is very isolated and adrift in a very competitive field.