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Thread #143515   Message #3833410
Posted By: Jack Campin
18-Jan-17 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Sammy Bar.. Irish version.
Subject: RE: Sammy Bar.. Irish version.
The record company in question was ARC Music, the world music arm of the Scientologists, who, whatever else you might say about them, have never been afraid to label their products with unfashionable ethnicities, and are quite happy to describe something as English when the artist wants them to:

http://www.arcmusic.co.uk/shop/theultimateguidetoenglishfolklinernotesbyjonboden-p-1315.html

This outfit may be the same as a "Tara Irish band" who appear to be Hungarian. (I have encountered this sort of Irish-inspired cultural anti-Englishness from Hungarians; they probably got it from Germans who had themselves got it second-hand, and it fits in well with endemic Hungarian nationalist paranoias). Click for some of the worst bodhran playing you ever likely to witness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAUYATWkSo