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Thread #120582   Message #2624792
Posted By: Rifleman (inactive)
05-May-09 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: Is there a folk music industry?
Subject: RE: Is there a folk music industry?
"as should have been clear to you from the just-above, "here", link."

I'm extremely wary about going to unfamiliar websites, you just never know what nasty little things might jump out at one.......

I too love multiculturalism, especially when it occurs in England, where would England be with multiculturalism? No curry take away for a start, nor Chinese come to think of it, nor over half the words in the English language.....and I've not even begun to touch some of musical instruments many musicians I know play. One of the instruments I play is the 5 string banjo.

"I hear very few imitating Jean Ritchie or Roscoe Holcomb, or PeteSeeger and precious few Yodelling like Jimmie Rodgers,and not many singing Leadbellys"

However there is a group of English musicians playing href="http://www.skinnymalinksmusic.co.uk/artists/thesongsofthecar.html">The Songs of The Carter Family