Moseley Folk & Arts Festival

Subject: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
From: GUEST,Fyldeplayer
Date: 20 Aug 19 - 03:51 AM

The large poster ad on back of Saturday's Times Review shows a wonderful line up for this festival. However, embedded in the design header is the statement ' All Music is Folk Music' ! - I don't think that Voodoo Child or Big Eyed Beans from Venus or Toxic or Don't Sleep in the Subway Baby qualify. Not an attempt to reopen the 'What is Folk' thing. Who designs this stuff?

Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 20 Aug 19 - 04:18 AM

I saw that too. More "Arts" than "Folk", methinks. And I didn't think it was a "wonderful" line up at all.
"Who designs this stuff ?" Does it matter ?

Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 20 Aug 19 - 07:22 AM

I imagine it's a case of appealing to a big range of people and hoping they find something or other that will do.

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They don't have a page for 'music' or 'folk' or 'roots' or 'art'
so this is everyone

Don McLean
Jake Bugg
Public Service Broadcasting
The Zutons
Richard Thompson
Edwyn Collins
Lucy Rose
Peggy Seeger
EB The Younger
Daoirí Farrell Trio
Tunng
Israel Nash
Charles Watson
Babe Rainbow
Zooni
Boat To Row
Gwenifer Raymond
Thom Ashworth
Charlotte Carpenter
Gasoline & Matches
County Line Runner
Saint Alto
Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band
You Tell Me
Alex Rex
The Drystones
Hannah Read
Bird In The Belly
Dof
Death By Stampede
Harare
MUHA
GERMA ADAN
The Ceilidh Liberation Front
Zirak Hamad Daholl Kurdish Ensemble
Nick Harper
Kathryn Williams
Simply Dylan
Joshua Burnell & Frances Sladen
Son Of John
Whitherward
Emily Mae Winters
Rachel Croft
Wizz Jones
The Faux Pas
Charlie Parr
JD Wilkes
John Blek
Philippa Zawe
Chloe Mogg
Stuart Maconie
The Hurricane Tapes
Peggy Seeger Q&A
Tom Binns
Helen Pankhurst
Black Country Living Museum
Andy Robinson
Rob Auton
Bethany Black
John Higgs
Extinction Rebellion
Youth Strike For Climate
Daisy Campbell
Catherine O’Flynn
Birmingham Literature Festival
Glee Club Comedy
The Commentators
I AM YOGI
Sculpture Workshops
In Her Shoes
Singing For Joy
Bernadette Russell
The Hobo Tree
Adventures In Storytelling – The Wondertales Mix
Practical Magic

https://www.moseleyfolk.co.uk/element-category/full-programme/

Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Aug 19 - 04:07 AM

Like any big festival wanting to get bigger, they have to appeal to to a wider audience to get bigger.

Is Cambridge that exclusively folkie? Is Shreswbury that honest about its claim? Towersey hides behind the fact that they have always called it a "Village Festival", but Joan Armatrading, despite being a singer songwriter, is not Folk. And this year who is (are) the Selector, Newton Faulkner? And was Steve Harley ever Folk? If it wasn't for the fact that their dance list was so inviting would folkies attend? But I won't be joining the 4 ballet workshops, THEY are not FOLK.

FWIW, at Towersey, most years ALL the ceilidh bands put together were paid less than the headline act, one who thought he should hector the audience on how to vote! Is that Folk?

Getting bigger isn't folk, it is business.

If you want the festivals to survive - it needs new blood to attend, and they have different influences. I well remember when Bob Dylan was regarded as infra-dig to the old guard of folkies.
I am now the old guard, and understand how the old guard of old times felt. When my legs give up, will I give up on festivals?