Anahata,
I agree wholeheartedly - as far as instruments are concerned.
Unfortunately this hasn't filtered down to the singers.
Irish music is enjoying a tremendous popularity at present generated by the skill of the performers - surely there is a lesson to be learned there
Cap'n
You've gone done it - you've lost me again.
Who mentioned the ability or otherwise of traditional singers - not me.
I have argued in the past - and will continue to do so that their function, with very few exceptions, was not as performers, but as song carriers who, in many cases, could bring a unique experience to the songs without necessarily possessing the skills that they may once have had;(please read back correspondence - I have no intention of reviving the argument here).
This has nothing whatever to do with the poor standards which are accepted, and in some case welcomed and encouraged by some PERFORMERS in the REVIVAL (read the back correspondence again). We can all have off nights, but when off nights become the object of the exercise.....
I can enjoy myself throwing darts at a dartboard, but the height of my enjoyment comes when I hit the bull.
Jim Carroll