What is Folk Music? This is...

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 02:25 PM

I'll add a couple more while we wait and see if anything moves us on...

Talay, Ece & Frøholm

Or this load of miserable folkies that I booked at Swinton just before we had to scale our festival down. Dunno what I was thinking of... :-)

Enjoy

DtG

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 06:15 PM

I'm posting this to this thread because it's the latest of the myriad of "what is folk" threads. I haven't read through all of this one so perhaps if it has become contentious, this might bring them back on track.

While watching the online video of the PBS documentary Give Me the Banjo, I heard a wonderful quote by Mike Seeger:

"This music exists to entertain a few friends and not for performance and it can happen anywhere, any time and I think it's wonderful for that reason."

kat

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: GUEST,Chris Murray
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 06:22 PM

Has anyone mentioned the horse yet?

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: BTNG
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 06:29 PM

Louis Armstrong's horse....
? least he has been credited by some as uttering that quote first

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 06:37 PM

Louis Armstrong once said, I ain't never seen no horse waving round handkerchiefs and applying for an arts council grant......

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: BTNG
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 06:45 PM

well that line is attributed to Louis Armstrong, but there were some on an online community of musicians, historians and enthusiasts that collect and discuss traditional folk and blues songs, folklore, lyrics, instruments etc who wanted to know What EXACTLY is Folk?

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 06:05 AM

'What is Folk Music? This is...'

Robbie Robertson - Coyote Dance

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 06:54 AM

This music exists to entertain a few friends and not for performance and it can happen anywhere, any time and I think it's wonderful for that reason.

This can be said of any music really; I've enjoyed many such informal musical soirees with folkies, brass players, choral singers, Classical players, jazzers and one memorable evening trying to play in a Viol Consort. I've been part of fireside ceilidhs with exalted singers, stortellers and folk musicians in which we sang anything but folk songs - great fun!

So that tells us about what people do some of the time. What becomes of Folk Music when it does become about more formal performance? Or does True Folk Music preclude that? But all music has its formal & informal aspects; all music has a social side, but all music isn't Folk...

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 07:37 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYiz-6PijM

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 07:52 AM

Have you got a sore throat?

Nay, I'm just a little horse.

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: GUEST,Lizzie Higgins
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 08:41 AM

'What is Folk Music? This is...'

Interesting version of Coyote Dance. Have you seen this one? It's in foreign, so I guess classes as folk?

http://youtu.be/tg22cs3-jEk

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: GUEST,Emberto Uco
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 09:50 AM

ahem.....

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/7656-2994.gif

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 01:11 PM

What is Folk Music? This is...

"Tui Tui Tuomen Kukka"

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 01:32 PM

...and I'm sure this pair were at our club the other night.

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 01:39 PM

I am pretty sure they sang this.

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 09:53 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xVT-vdJL4g

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 10:06 AM

Thanks Dick, that brought a huge smile to my face. Did you notice the first comment?

It's great to hear how it was back when people sang for the joy of it and to tell a story. So many people are afraid to sing becuase they don't sound 100% perfect.

I couldn't agree more.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 02:35 PM

How about this?

:D

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 03:54 PM

With Folk it's far easier to say what it isn't that what it is....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCke8BfVPBs&feature=related

Traditional? Hell, yeah!

Subject: RE: What is Folk Music? This is...
From: Lighter
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 05:30 PM

DtG, he sings better than I do! Where's my prize?

He would have sounded just fine on a square-rigger, new words and all.