The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5030   Message #28429
Posted By: Barry Finn
15-May-98 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: What got you started?
Subject: RE: What got you started?
Since the 60's I've always like folk but only in a once in awhile way. In the mid 70's I attended a mini one day folk fest at Plymouth, Mass., & this woman, Barbara Carins, was dong a bluesy type workshop & I had mentioned that what she had just done sounded like a prison thing I knew, she proded me into singing the little bit I knew of it & then offered some encouraging words (I never sang or condidered it). Last month I spoted her while I was on stage singing at a folk festival, she came up to me & said "I like what you did" (she had no idea who I was), I replied with a thanks & told her it was she that should be getting the thanks for starting me off singing 20 years back. Barry