An interesting concept: arrangements of folk tunes that can't be played "as is" because some folk instruments aren't fully chromatic. You could be perverse and argue that if the "folk" instruments can't be used to play folk tunes, then they're not folk instruments. Are we talking just free reeds here? As it happens, I don't consider concertinas and melodeons as necessarily "folk" instruments - just populat instruments of comparatively recent origin, (by comparison with a fiddle or even a guitar) which have been adopted to play some tunes in the folk repertoire. Nothing wrong with that, by the way, but they can be somewhat restricting. If the instruments can't play the tunes, then don't use them (he says mischievously). After all, the original singers of these songs just sang what they wanted to, probably without thinking of chromaticism. Just a gentle observation - I hope the occasion is a great success for you!
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