Not an easy line to follow, a concern for world events, a knowledge of where they will lead based on previous experience, and an adherence to traditional songs and music.
Today's happenings have echoes in the past, and despite the oft repeated old saw about learning from history, the fact is we don't.
Putting traditional songs into a modern tale, along with contemporary songs written by the people involved to flesh out the story, is a thing many folkie type people have tried with varying degrees of success.
Trouble is that it always comes with 'a message', which is whatever axe the writers have to grind. People like Roy Bailey and Tony Benn do an evenings entertainment, but it's all very left wing, so attracts criticism from the right.
What Im saying about these 'Musical Plays' that people put on is that it's very interesting, but is it folk. Is folk music a folk memory, an entertainment, or a propaganda tool?
Giok