The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121472   Message #2655736
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
13-Jun-09 - 03:30 PM
Thread Name: Folk Against Fascism
Subject: RE: Folk Against Fascism
If we're down to sloganising, here are two from The English Acoustic Collective:

Traditions must be respected but conventions can be broken and
The gold you are searching for is in your own backyard.

Multicultural artistic collaboration is not new (Boka Halat/Edward II/Ale Möller Band, to start a long list) nor is dancing to whatever were the pop tunes of the day (the tunes in the Playford Dancing Master didn't fall from the C17 sky).

The focus of FaF, as well as safeguarding trad music from the threat of hijack by the BNP will also cover extension of this phenomenon, down through the ages. It's what English musicians have always done and they will not be deflected.