I'm afraid in today's club scene, the Walters and Tom Lenihans and Mikeen McCarthy's would find a hearing in very few clubs, thanks to many of "the changes that others have brought."
Jim, the same also applies to unaccompanied revival singers, BACK IN 1976 ,I realised that to still get work on the uk folk scene, I would have to learn an instrument.
I apologise to all those people who over the years, I have upset with my concertina playing, particuarly those on www.session.org.
I apologise for not sounding like Noel Hill, I apologise for not playing in the proscribed comhaltas manner on the anglo concertina, on my English concertina,I apologise for having the temerity as an Englishman to think I could even play music.