The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #128898   Message #2889712
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Apr-10 - 07:39 AM
Thread Name: Do folk people like the Bodhran?
Subject: RE: Do folk people like the Bodhran?
"Thats how sessions are made and spread have fun"
May be the way sessions are made, but its no way to make listenable music.
I have seen more sessions around here naused up by bodhran players than any other 'instrument' (giving it the benefit of the doubt). It's always the visitors; we have hundreds of good musicians living around here (a good percentage of them youngsters), but none of them 'play' bodhrans.
The problem is that an inexperienced fiddle player will work to improve - goat-abusers seem to think they have come into the world fully formed, so they don't bother.
Jim Carroll