we dont need performer and audiences or income

We need songs and singers and players

quality is up to the autonomous participant or should be

look into field recordings

today quality seems to be too too important recently on the Sunday Folk Show last sunday - Geraldine tudor radio Shropshire should still be in archive till next sunday....

a representative from english folk music and dance society discussing the potential participation of select uk folk musicianss at next years celtic connections revealed this obsession with quality-

of course they have to have high quality of standards....meet our high standards

but also should have the apparatus to self produce at a high level, you tube presence cds recorded...essentially industry ready.

i had to laugh as I have been recently reading the philosophy of two of the founders- vaughn williams and cecil sharp- these two culturist dictators would have highly approved.

What does this say to ordinary musicians but to be discouraged and hopeless and not recognized - we must remember that the only reason we have so many traditional songs is entirely due to the roles of ordinary participants not super stars.

the performance virtuoso aspect is now a huge cancer and needs to be trimmed back to the place where it is in balance.

Conrad