The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139035 Message #3186364
Posted By: Bounty Hound
12-Jul-11 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: young people and Folk Music
Subject: RE: young people and Folk Music
From Phil Cooper earlier in the thread:
'I've noticed that when young people hear us,they like what we do. If there's a group of them, they're not as inclined. So, it's corrupt one at a time.'
Spot on Phil, peer pressure takes over, they worry about their street cred with their mates and say don't like that. So you are right, corrupt one at a time.
Will say that the other point earlier about there being no lack of youngsters at festivals is also very true, The Bounty Hounds did shows at both The Merry Tom Folk Festival and Ely Folk Festival over the last weekend, loads of late teens/early twenties in the audience at both. How we get them into the clubs though........