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Thread #165660 Message #3980465
Posted By: r.padgett
06-Mar-19 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: UK 60s Folk Club Boom?
Subject: RE: UK 60s Folk Club Boom?
"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"
Folk clubs are not in my view folk clubs if they simply book guests ~ they are Folk Concert clubs!
Folk clubs are places that people go to play music and sing and that are open to audiences ~ I frequent such clubs ~ and are I suppose now deemed mixed sing and play ~ people tend to simply start a song or whatever and people listen and join in with the music etc ~ as Dick says trad ballads are tolerated ~ I tend to stick to chorusy songs ~ but do sing the tradition too
Times are and have changed as has the musicianship for the better by and large ~ new breed do take too much for granted and are looking for payment for their services ~ there are some brilliant newcomers I have to say!
Professional singers rely very much on the Folk concerts and other suitable venues promoting folk entertainment
Folk 21 members have their own axe to grind btw (facebook)
WE oldies are I think more aware of social issues in song history too
Ray