For Mr Laban's benefit- in my book, 'what traditional music is all about' is as part of a 'culture' not the kind of debased musical commercialism which is rampant at places like Doolin (but not exclusively there)which are promoted by 'Bord Failte' as real Irish music.
I just want the foreign visitors to Ireland with a genuine interest in the music not to be conned by this crap.
I don't like 'country & irish', it's awful, but in some ways a more genuine part of Irish life in 2013 than a mob of youngsters playing reels as fast as possible with half the folk unable to hear anything because of the horrendous noise. That s NOT 'traditional music'- it's a travesty.....oh and to get back to the thread, many genuinely Irish popular folk songs current today on the Irish scene were only kept alive by the Irish living in the US and the UK revival in the 50s and 60s.,