The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #49076   Message #740304
Posted By: Anglo
01-Jul-02 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: Old Songs Festival 2002, back from
Subject: RE: BS: Back from Old Songs
Nice to get such a positive response to my comments, made (as I often do) with tongue firmly in cheek. Sorry if I've highly insulted you, Ron, but you can come out again now. Of course I wasn't suggesting you don't support traditional music, I know you do, and in public yet with your radio show. And traditional music is primarily what this festival is all about. Now I'm as traddy as they come, but I wouldn't have not hired any of the singer-songwriters that were there (excuse the double negative, I was attempting to an example of litotes, one of the lesser known figures of speech). Too much good music for me to listen to in one weekend, though. I think I might suggest they hire some lesser acts so I can get more time to eat and drink, meet friends and the like, and not have to feel I'm missing something. (And this year I especially enjoyed the addition of the gourmet coffee stand, despite the heat).