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Thread #166730 Message #4013433
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
13-Oct-19 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: the uk folk revival in 2019
Subject: RE: the uk folk revival in 2019
'Junior Crehan (now twenty years dead) put it in a nutshell when he said "The music was ruined when money came into the picture"
Well maybe if you were sharing middens with him - you would know all his songs and agree with him.
However a lot of us only get to know about folk music through the activities of professional folksingers. To be honest - apart from a very lucky few - most folksingers could earn more money doing something else. They do it from devotion to the craft. And I, along with many others owe them - they have enriched our lives.
It takes guts and often considerable sacrifice to try and make it as a professional folksinger.