"Nothing, or so I am told, brings tears to the eyes of a native speaker so much as a Yorkshireman trying to speak Welsh."
As much as I admired the man, you should have heard Ewan speak Liverpoolese
"Sing in a way that is natural and comfortable to you, and don't try to imitate."
Absolutely.
I would be interested to learn how people like yourself actually cope with situations that must be totally alien to you - or are there parallels in your own experiences that enable you to do so?
That's one of the ways we attempted to approach songs in The Critics Group.
"Peggy Seeger, rather newly arrived in the UK,"
Peggy tells the story and explains her actions in one of a series of letters to 'The Living Tradition Magazine' following a letter I wrote entitled, 'Where Have All the Folksongs Gone' - lively, if somewhat depressing debate, looking back
Jim Carroll