The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #123431 Message #2725045
Posted By: Spleen Cringe
16-Sep-09 - 06:51 PM
Thread Name: What is The Tradition?
Subject: RE: What is The Tradition?
Jim, with all due respect, when were you last in a designated folk context in the UK? Tonight I was at a rather wonderful mainly, but not exclusively, traditional folk singaround, that seamlessly blended traditional folk song, a Flander and Swann number, Stan Rogers and self penned stuff in a folk idiom. It's my idea of a cracking night. It's a variant of what S O'P keeps describing as the reality of 21st century folk clubs. Traditional music is in the mix, but wonderful as much of it is, its not the whole story. Long may it have bedfellows.