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Thread #147479 Message #3419877
Posted By: Will Fly
14-Oct-12 - 06:53 PM
Thread Name: Change at the BBC folk awards
Subject: RE: Change at the BBC folk awards
Something wonderful is being lost for ever.
Not lost, Al - perhaps set aside for the moment. We have audio recordings of these people, at any rate and, in years to come - like everything else - these things will emerge and have their day again.
There's no point in yearning for the past - let's just get on with the present and play our music and enjoy ourselves.
I'm writing this at 11.50pm, having just returned from my local where we had my monthly acoustic session. We played and sang blues, old rock'n roll, 1930s songs, old-time fiddle and guitar music, unaccompanied ballads, Jim Croce and many other things, And - do you know - no-one mentioned folk music, folk, the folk process, folk awards, the BBC or anything connected with anything. We just sat round a table, drank beer and wine and played and sang our hearts out.