folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:48 AM

The legacy 1960's clubs will be gone, because the legacy folkies (like me) will be in their eighties.
Today's acoustic musicians will be sitting in declining Acoustic Nights in scruffy back rooms of whatever pubs remain unconverted into virtual 24 hour gambling porn boozers, moaning on about the good old days of proper folk singers like Seth and Jim and Bellowhead, and still trying to find Bminor7 in DADGAD.
Meanwhile the real folk will be happening somewhere else, where young people will be playing old songs and having a good time.
That's how it always has been, and that's how it will be.
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:48 AM

Hello,

Like anything, folk music has to evolve to survive. It has been evolving since Ug found that a song about killing a bison gave him a good feeling and helped him keep his spirits up when said bison looked as though it didn't want to be lunch!

This evolution is called the folk process by some and normal by others.

Folk clubs come and folk clubs go...some go on for ever! Why? because they cater for all tastes and are not locked into a static image of what "folk" is.

The music will continue to evolve. A blind alley will still be travelled every now and then, but the songs that are worth singing will survive...whether you stick your finger in your ear or not!

Where the songs survive there will be groups of people who will go to hear them.

BTW when you saw some-one with their hand clamped to their ear in "the old days" it meant they were a traditional singer. Nowadays it means they are using a mobile phone!

Best wishes,

Pete

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Folkiedave
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 04:27 AM

Very much alive - but clubs are declining.

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Declan
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 03:49 AM

Dead or alive, lets hope it will still be wanted.

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Ferrara
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 09:48 PM

Oh well, definitely alive. Well, I see so many young people who are interested and getting more interested. Including our 24 year old son who is happily bringing his friends to folk events whenever he can.

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: nager
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 09:06 PM

My friends and I play a lot of music together at our homes and at parties etc owing to wankers who turn up at some of the clubs with their `view' on what folk music is and `tut tut' when we sing our own stuff and discourage new and younger people and their acoustic music.
Some of them believe that unless a song is tuneless, allegedly 100 years old or more, sung with a finger stuck in your ear and without an instument by someone with no voice ... it is not folk. If this IS folk then ....

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Padre
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:50 PM

Alive

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: GUEST,Scoville at scanning station
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:41 PM

I'm not worried. It may not be in the same places, but it will still be there.

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Alec
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:39 PM

Lot of Folk goes on outside of clubs. Traditons merge,coalesce & reform on a regular basis.Purely accoustic music is having more success in the popular field than it has had for sometime.
Alive.There may be any number of great & enduring songs as yet unwritten.

Subject: RE: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:34 PM

I disagree, but welcome to Mudcat anyway!

~Susan

Subject: folk music 20 yrs from now dead or alive
From: Mississippi Saxaphone
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:32 PM

given the declining attendances at the clubs I think that given the average age of attendees that the scene will be dead in 20 years.what is your view?