The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63229 Message #1025752
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
28-Sep-03 - 07:19 AM
Thread Name: should the mandolin/banjoist play with e
Subject: RE: Folklore: should the mandolin/banjoist play with e
> "One way to compete is to cut the others out by playing something they probably won't know or in a key they can't get"
I was once asked to stop playing airs at an Pseudo Irish Session by the organiser because
1) Nobody else knew what I was playing and they couldn't join in.
2) They couldn't join in with the (Portsmouth Synfonia Style) tuneless fast paced racket.
Funny, I had been talking with someone earlier up from Sydney, who said they didn't like this session because nobody was playing any airs.
In Sydney they would play an air, then some faster ones, etc..