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Thread #63100   Message #1023418
Posted By: Forsh
23-Sep-03 - 06:01 AM
Thread Name: UK attitudes to folk music
Subject: RE: UK attitudes to folk music
And of course, Brewick is in Northumberland, England, and Not in Berwickshire, Scotland! Alan ww: you illustrate my earlier points so well, (No late bar for St Georges day etc). I don't really care WHO our saint is, Cuthbert would be ok by me, as long as we (English) stand in equality with the Irish/Scots etc and HAVE a Day of National Celebration for Some Cultural reason, On Burns Night, the Hagis gets insinerated, So, lets all burn beef & over cook veg in a big way, and build little stne henges all over the place for summer solstice or what ever, In the words of William Connely, 'De Sumthin!' It's NOT about politics or the 'Nation State' but it is about the Nation and the Folk who live here. I love my heritage, I love the history of these islands, I love our folk culture,and I love the Land. F**k the political aspects of Nation, who gives ahoot for that?!