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Thread #142288 Message #3282407
Posted By: The Sandman
31-Dec-11 - 10:13 AM
Thread Name: Alternative Folk Awards
Subject: RE: Alternative Folk Awards
people that resort to insults and telling people to feck off show the bankruptcy of their arguments.
Al is correct, 9o per cent of the folk club performers would not be able to perform and entertain in a pub to a non folk audience.
as i understand it what Jim moray is talking about is something slightly different the people who are going to see the carthys and jim moray are going there because they wish to see those particular artists.
or perhaps i have misunderstood the new years gig, jim please correct me if i am wrong.
Als point is correct, most at a guess 90 per cent of folk club performers have a repertoire that is only suited to folk club audiences, those who have, are generally those performers who have also worked different circuits, such as folk comedians, or people who have done working mens clubs or people such as th ex spinners, hughie jones etc, Or some of the irish performers who have worked irish pubs, and who have in their repertoire what folk club performers might consider hackneyed material, but which because it has entered the mainstream is popular with non folk club audiences , such as wild rover, kilgarry mountains dublins fair city, sloop john b, good night irene, etc