The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152354   Message #3570700
Posted By: Will Fly
28-Oct-13 - 06:47 AM
Thread Name: Traditional Music: Where are we going wrong?
Subject: RE: Traditional Music: Where are we going wrong?
I see where you're coming from, Richard, but - accepting for a moment and for the sake of argument that there has to be a "cure", wouldn't you say that it's a dubious proposition to go for the "accessible"? And how do we define accessible?

When I went to a Bellowhead concert a few years ago in Lewes town hall, which was packed to the rafters, I would say that the greater part of the audience was well under 40 years of age, and was bopping away like billyo by the end of the evening. So would we call Bellowhead's slightly off-the-wall and eccentric take on folk tunes and songs to be "accessible"? I really couldn't say!