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Thread #166730   Message #4012207
Posted By: Jim Carroll
06-Oct-19 - 12:11 PM
Thread Name: the uk folk revival in 2019
Subject: RE: the uk folk revival in 2019
"I was just saying that's how they seem to be to me."
And I was suggesting that rather than lay back andf think of England we should try to do something about it so our kids have the same opportunities to get as much pleasure and satisfaction from folk song as we did
For me, it's a personal commitment because we promised all the lovely old singers we met that we would do our best not to let their lovely old songs die (can't find the correct spelling but in Irish folklore it's called 'an geasach- binding pledge)
"I feel like a fossil."
Wouldn't bother - I've tasted one - they taste rotten
There isd nothing wrong with the internet being used to communicate songs - far from it
It's when it's put up as an alternative to to clubs that it becomes problematical
I'm sure someone said the same about print at one time
Jim