Hello Linda

"What Is Folk?"

Good Question. I think it's about time we discussed this subject!

As for Mr Hazlewood....Couldn't agree more. Luckily I had the chance to listen to Verity and Ian McMillan on R3.

They should have been on TV to add a modicum of Knowledge and Gravitas.
Mr H's interview with Mssrs Boden and Sartin was ball clutchingly awful. John and Paul must have wondered why they'd agreed to such a travesty of an interview.

As for the two gigs as a whole.

The first one was pretty interesting with the Juxtaposition of Muzsikas and Bartok. Bellas Seventeen come Sunday followed by the Vaughan Williams Folk song suite was also thought provoking.
The Climax of Kathryns "Confluence" did demonstrate what can happen when genres collide. Nice end

Could have done with out the Berio bit!

(It says in Radio Times.....
Monica Bacelli (Mezzo)
Bella Hardy (Singer.....???)

Nuff said.

Prom 2, didn't get off to such a great start with Bellas tuning problems, but she recovered well. Mr Simpson was, well Mr Simpson. Sublime playing et al.

Bellowhead. I've mentioned the tecchie stuff above, but there are arrangements are always fascinating. and thought they did rather well considering the circs, and that they had already done an open air gig in the afternoon.

Now you wouldn't get the Halle doing that would you??!!

In all, a bit of a curates egg of a day. Just happy that it happened at all.
Memo to Mr Appleby, was it Mike W doing the mix for R3 in the evening?

Sounded like his touch!

Ralphie