"they perform their own village tradition,"
As I understand it Tim, Morris is as much a revival as the folk scene - very few, if any, are unbroken tradidions
Sharp had a great hand in reviving traditional dance.
Why not throw in ballet and hip-hop in that case?
That's the type of thing being suggested for folk song.
You paint a gloomy picture of your ballad sessions - I wonder why
At the height of the folk scene I was involved in we were screaming for someone to open a window on an overcrowded, overheated room.
"What does anyone else think?"
I think it depends on the writer cap'n
MacColl's best songs, in my opinion, were those he based on actuality - recordings of the type of people his songs were about - fishermen, miners, road-workers, gypsies....
There are some nice tunes being made by youngsters heer in Ireland - I find it difficult to distinguish them from the older ones
The thing the few older source players objected to strongly was the speed they were played and quite often the unnecessarily lod accompaniment
Don't get me started about bodhrans!!
Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll