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Thread #150058 Message #3494040
Posted By: Uncle Tone
24-Mar-13 - 02:53 AM
Thread Name: Tradsinger seeks gigs (UK)
Subject: RE: Tradsinger seeks gigs (UK)
Not be be confused with the Leather Lane Barista.
Quote: "The time has come for me to stop hiding my light under a bushel. I would really like to get out and do some gigs on the folk scene"
If your webpage is to believed, Gwilym, you are already very active on your local folk scene. Hardly 'hiding your light'. May I gently suggest that although you have had some local folk club bookings, you are probably not in the same league as those who regularly appear on club guest lists?
I come to this thread from two perspectives, as a local performer now, like you, and as a folk club organiser and promoter, mostly back in the 70s and 80s. I also had my own folk show on Chiltern Radio. In those days I was inundated by demos from those who thought they'd like to 'get out and do some gigs on the folk scene'. But, it only made sense to book artists that put bums on seats or showed the potential to do this.
I'm retired from most of that now. I do my singing in local singarounds. It's far more relaxing and fun. It's in such clubs that you realise nowadays that standards are so good amongst most 'floor-singers', and successful clubs are not that many any more, so to be able to compete successfully on the guest artist circuit, you need to be something very special. If you were that special then you wouldn't need to promote yourself on forums such as this.
I listened to your MP3 clips. I'd say, 'welcome to the singaround scene'. I'd listen, but I wouldn't pay to do so.
I guess there must be a reason why there are no YouTube clips of Gwilym performing that I can find?
Tone