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20 Aug 19 - 03:51 AM (#4005177) Subject: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival From: GUEST,Fyldeplayer 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? |
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20 Aug 19 - 04:18 AM (#4005183) Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival From: GUEST,kenny 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 ? |
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20 Aug 19 - 07:22 AM (#4005205) Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival From: FreddyHeadey I imagine it's a case of appealing to a big range of people and hoping they find something or other that will do. ~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ |
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21 Aug 19 - 04:07 AM (#4005325) Subject: RE: Moseley Folk & Arts Festival From: Mr Red 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? |