The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70239 Message #1198953
Posted By: dianavan
03-Jun-04 - 12:37 AM
Thread Name: Folk Festival Problems?
Subject: RE: Folk Festival Problems?
I've been to the west coast of Ireland a couple of times and what I thought really kept the folk music alive was the fact that there really wasn't an audience. You were expected to perform. You either played an instrument or sang or both. If you couldn't do that, you danced. If you didn't do any of those things, you had to tell a story.
Maybe thats whats needed to keep folk music alive.
I sometimes think that as soon as you have an audience, you become 'pop'.