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Thread #143924 Message #3325011
Posted By: Jack Campin
19-Mar-12 - 06:37 AM
Thread Name: the english and irish traditions
Subject: RE: the english and irish traditions
players like McGoldrick and Dezi Donnelly were English by birth (of Irish family) and their music developed in England- in Manchester to be precise.
But not in the English folk scene. Incubated in the Comhltas competition scramble, they developed through bands revolving round the Manchester Irish pub session scene.
That wouldn't make enough of an audience to form the basis of a career, surely? I was thinking of who paid to listen to them, which, until they went global, was surely English folkies more than anybody else?