2Has anyone got any GOOD news about Brexit?2
changed yes - no folk scene that can't guarantee folk songs can be described as healthy bcan be described as healthy by any stretch of teh imagination, neither can a scene that can't define what has replaced folk song
The movement towards payment as an incentive is a huge step back to the dauys of a music industry controlled culture - the very thing the clubs were set up to escape
It has been more or less admitted that the clubs have moved towards a guest policy rather than resident reliant clubs
Also admitted is the shift from clubs to festivals as venues
Rod Stradling's editorial poined out that Dance and Song had more or less abandoned traditional song, so I checked their site to find that, while they have dine a magnificent job on digitising Sharp's diaries, the only sound items were one, not unpleasant but not likely to inspire meodeon piece and around a dozen very mediocre singer/songwriter performances that bore no relation to folk song
Young stalwarts maty be 'doing well' but folk song appears to gone out of the window.
How can that be described as "healthy"
You don't have to go far to gauge the present health of the folk scene -the arguments put up on these threads save you the journey
Sorry Ray (and sorry for getting your name wrong previously)
Jim