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Thread #155357   Message #3658492
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
08-Sep-14 - 01:27 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
'. I used to have a quite a repertoire, but my grandchildren just yelled "Don't sing! Don't sing!" Then they turned their media music on loud. So I quit. Now I hardly remember any 1954-type "folksongs" all the way through.'

i did that with my grandad - miner/clog dancer from an Irish gypsy family.it goes with the territory - being young. i don't think you can blame kids. the world they grow up in is different.