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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Frank Lee	Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5 (128* d)	RE: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5	30 Sep 11
Will Fly wrote:- 'Wonder if there'll be any English musicians in the series... nah - too much to hope for'. Dead right! They claim it'll be a mixture of American, Scots, and Irish. I've travelled the world a fair bit in the last 30 years and folks look astonished when I tell them I don't (to my knowledge) play Irish music, even though I'm English. They simply look puzzled if I tell them I play English music. Moreover, the assumption is made that everything I play MUST be Irish, because I'm English (makes sense doesn't it?), it's just that I play Irish music they've never heard before! There's a PhD in this I'm sure, and I expect this has been discussed at length here in the past. The Irish/Scottish 'folk industry' - an oxymoron IMHO if ever there was one - probably has too much at stake to admit there's other folk music within these shores.

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