Disservice to Folk Awards

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: GUEST,raggytash
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:56 AM

And this is the room number you should be put in

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 05:57 AM

Morning Carpet face.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Hovering Bob
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:24 AM

I nominate the 'prats' in the media who purposefully ridicule our folk heritage in all it's forms. The cheap laughs are at the expense of the ethos that makes us, and them, what we are. What I think is worse is when this attitude translates into discriminatory action or lack of it.
I suppose my greatest claim to fame is standing on a stage in Portugal in front of a live audience of over 5,000 as a musician with Dorset Triumph Folk Dancers representing my country at the first European Folklore Festival.
We didn't win but we were there and the final show was televised by EuroVision to millions across the whole of Europe, except that is, for the UK whose television broadcasters decided, in their wisdom, to ignore the whole thing because it was 'folk'!

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 06:26 PM

Good musicians. Ordinary folks who got up at gatherings and sang the songs of their communities stopped performing. It's pretty much vanilla flavoured now.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Sep 04 - 07:12 PM

I think it was Ron Kavana did that version of the wild rover you are talking about - the one with the slightly different tune. I think I heard him do it in Derby coupla years back

top man!

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 10:18 AM

Mmmmmmm. maybe you have a point, I'll have to think about it.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 10:34 AM

VAUGHAN BLOOD WILLIAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry
yelling over

I'll crawl back into my nice quiet padded cell now.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 11:17 AM

My last post doesn't make a great deal of sense, as the post which it replied to has been(sensibly) removed by a Joe Clone. It emphatically does not relate to weelittledrummer's previous post.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Scoville
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 11:30 AM

Our local ice cream trucks either play all of "Turkey in the Straw" or the first line only of "the Entertainer", which is worse. At least play a couple of bars! Aargh!

As an American, I'd nominate the racists who beat up the Louisiana Creole accordionist Amédé Ardoin for accepting a handkerchief from a white girl to wipe his face during a performance.

Second.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 08:12 AM

People and teams who insist on performing dance / music in exactly the same way it was by some bloke in the year blah blah blah, I.e. those who dont let folk music and dance evolve, and who get offended by any changes! Folk music and dance is there to be enjoyed and modified as time goes on.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:57 PM

Bloody astounding! over 100 posts and nobody's mentioned D*ve B*lm*r.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:15 PM

I've no doubt Smoothops would love to give Dave Bulmer an award since they like each other so much.
Thus they would oppose, obviously, one to the Beast of Harrogate for "disservice" to the industry.
If, however, he were suddenly to decide to release his buried treasures in a proper and above-board manner with all due royalties paid (or alternatively return the rights to the artists), I'd be applauding any plan to give him a gong for (belatedly) doing the right thing.

(Watching a cloud of Gloucester Old Spots drifting by my window)

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:21 PM

(Watching a cloud of Gloucester Old Spots drifting by my window)

Whole squadron of farmyard animals in my case.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: The Mole Catcher's Apprentice (inactive)
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:25 PM

(Watching a cloud of Gloucester Old Spots drifting by my window)
now there has to be a complete song lyric there somewhere.

Charlotte (watching the cat make a complete fool of itself)

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:55 PM

Sounds suspiciously like something Syd Barrett should have sung on one of his solo albums to me.

Nigel (about to dig out 'The Madcap Laughs')

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: TheSnail
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 03:56 PM

I have it on unreliable authority (Father Kenneth Loveless) that the words to English Country Gardens were written by Cecil Sharp.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 07:24 PM

You don't get a lot of people called Cecil these days.......

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Edgware
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 07:47 AM

I've just read through the whole of this discourse, and was rather surprised that nobody thought of nominating messrs Rich & Gay. Arguably, they seem to have kicked off the process of hijacking folk or should I say traditional melodies with "the Beggar's Opera" - "Lumps of Pudding" et al.

Subject: RE: Disservice to Folk Awards
From: Paul Davenport
Date: 07 Aug 09 - 11:05 AM

Sitting in the beer tent at Warwick the other week I noticed three large posters advertising other festivals. The promoters were clearly using certain names as 'headline' acts to draw in the punters. These were, on the whole, winners of folk awards, darlings of the media and bands/singers 'poppy' enough to be tolerated by the 'folk-haters'. I would suggest, on the strength of this that the problem doesn't lie with the media but with the 'folk audience' who, to judge by their tastes, would actually rather be at a rock festival.