I have my audience,she sita and listens to all the mistakes and always finds something encouraging to say.
I think WLD has an audience at the Market Raisen Folk club
Luckily Villan has managed to make a folk club with a wider selection of artistes work.
I like my songs and yours (RH).
I have heard WLD a couple of times and genuinely enjoyed that he is not just another formula folky.
I have sat in the club and been bored to tears by some performers who tend to emphaise the traditional part of traditional music rather than the musical part.
Some of them are so far up them selves,and their own smugness at conforming to the tradition,(whatever that is) that they strangle all the life ,humour and sheer joi de vivre out of the material that they perform.
What villan allows to happen at his club that does not at a lot of others,is the variety of music that will ensure that the tradition of acoutic music will carry on.
GO to "Anonymous" folk club and see what happens if you insist on singing the same songs from the tradition,in the tradition according to the rules of folk music as set out by a bunch of pseudo left wing facists from the 60's revival.
It is boring!
I worry that if you go visit a club like that each time you go,there are the same old faces,the same old songs and tunes only less of then each time.
Will there come a day when the last surviving dinosaur sings a song they have found/rescued/discovered. and then closes the door on the way out to their own funeral?
Or will these musical archeologists run out of stuff to dig up?
So back to thread (almost)
What drives you to want to perform?
Is it that you think your singing /playing/song writing is only valid if you have other people to tell you so?