"Dreadful is perhaps too impassioned a word to use about McKennit-Enya-like tosh.


And there we have it, once more..the condescension that keeps English Traditional music behind its locked doors.


"The whole point is that it is NOT a "branch" of world music, but commercialised, sugar-coated, very poor but pretentious and rootless pop."

The whole point is that it has roots from many different cultures, all intermingled. And the reason it appeals to so many people is that we're all becoming like the music, branches from many roots, all entwined around one another, all beginning to see that we share the same root.