The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127980 Message #2860553
Posted By: Richard Bridge
09-Mar-10 - 06:15 PM
Thread Name: In the name of folk!
Subject: RE: In the name of folk!
There are no real youngsters there: the youngest is my daughter and she's 27! Perspective is a wonderful thing. We have had younger before, youngest performer would I think be maybe 10. She will be a decent singer in due course.
No Worries do not a lot of traditional, and I think no snigger snogwriter (which was the question) but Brian is an excellent guitarist (and guitar tech) with a lovely selection of Martins, Marion is an excellent bodhran player and shaker of noisy things and harmony singer.
It has been very rammed in the past. On one occasion last year I think we had about 35 performers. It is all-tolerant, but I am gratified to hear so much traditional stuff, and cobblers mostly sticking to their lasts: a couple of Irish sisters always wind me up by doing songs of Irish consciousness, and most of the English do not sing in mid-atlantic (or Scottish or Irish).
But it's nowhere near as professional as the KFFC stuff.