The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162917   Message #3884085
Posted By: The Sandman
23-Oct-17 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: What is Happening to our Folk Clubs
Subject: RE: What is Happening to our Folk Clubs
"I refuse to put water in my whisky, why should I need to water down my music?"
And all the time i thought you were a pioneer, jim,
for the record whisky was watered down to 40 per cent after the second world war.
Commercialism has forced a situation where venues are no longer available easily or cheaply for folk clubs , at the same time a lot of young people seem absorbed in mobile internet gadgets and seem to socialise in different ways than going down to a pub going in to a back room and listening, sometimes some of them only wantto communicate through their internet gadgets or if they go out they want to shout above back ground music