And it is not just the music. I am at the point where the term is only used by me among people who understand what is meant by it instead of what people with an agenda want it to mean. I class these into two groups. The first is the bunch who are striving for identity but who don't want to be bothered with the details of that identity. They take something that they think looks cool, like a celtic cross or some of the old druidic symbols, and they build this whole lifestyle around it and call it Celtic. They create druids, or live by precepts as they would like them to be instead of how they were. The same is often done with the music. Instead of taking the time and effort to listen to Donegal Fiddlers and learn, they just create their own that sounds vaguely familiar and call it Celtic. And the second group is the one that seeks to profit from this.

It doesn't really bother me, but I get weary of the generalization of a series of cultures that were fascinating, and are worthwhile to study.

Mick