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Thread #151872 Message #3585812
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
21-Dec-13 - 07:53 AM
Thread Name: Who invented Folk Clubs UK
Subject: RE: Who invented Folk Clubs UK
well there of course lies the problem.
being English we decide that country music isn't folk music. Personally I used to love that thing of playing in an Irish club where you'd do Black Velvet Band, orThe Galway shawl in waltz time and the floor would fill up with dancers.
It felt like something folkish was going on to me. And frankly something at a deeper more instinctive level than much more prestigious forms of folk music.