The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149377   Message #3480999
Posted By: Allan Conn
18-Feb-13 - 07:42 AM
Thread Name: [Formerly BS:] Musical snobbery
Subject: RE: BS: Musical snobbery
"just a lot of people having fun and also entertaining the other customers!"

We are the same at Kelso. We specifically named the club "Kelso Folk & Live Music Club" to try and show we wish to have a place for folk music but not restrict it to folk music. Any type of music is welcome and one can hear Scottish music and other traditional music through to African drumming through to jazz, classical music and popular music from any era and people's own compositions. We start off with an open mic at 8pm in a non-licensed premises which tends to be more singer-songwriter, blues, folk-revival and popular tunes though the odd traditional player attends too. Then we go down the Cobbles Inn after 10pm where the night normally starts off on traditional fiddle based tunes and Scottish songs then through the evening gets more diverse. It doesn't please everyone (what does?) but it seems to please most people.