The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88606   Message #1664001
Posted By: greg stephens
07-Feb-06 - 03:26 PM
Thread Name: BBC 2006 folk award results
Subject: RE: BBC 2006 folk award results
I dont know if that list of winners in the various categories is a complete one, but I notice that sessions and dances do not appear in any context. Historically, and right now as well, those would be appear to be the major outlets for traditional music in the country YOu might expect them to appear somewhere, Maybe a best dance band, or best venues or something. Best session might be a little and difficult to decide, but as they've maaged best folk club, it shouldn't be impossible.
    It's not a matter of who wins, particularly, just seeing the categories represented. Carnivals are interesting, too. I've been involved in street music in virtually every town in the north west of England, for example, and others are active elsewhere. But this does not interest the official world. I think the whole cocept needs broadening out to something a bit nearer reality,
   Evertone of those winners is a very worthy winner, I should emphasise. But there are other worlds as well as those considered here.