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Thread #166789 Message #4013960
Posted By: Jim Carroll
16-Oct-19 - 08:55 AM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
`"If you want to have a strictly trad policy - you put it in the title of your club."
Has anybody ever suggested this Al ?
If not, why raise it
I've haven't been to a strictly trad club for at leas thirty years and I never went back
A strictly trad policy would turn the revival into a museum - I've got sore fingers typing that
If woe mean club that specialised in a trad sound, that's a different matter
You appear to be suggesting what others have before you - if you wand folk besed folk clubs - piss off somewhere else
As an alterinative, why nor identify folk clubs that have nothing to do with folk song or style 'Folkeokies' or simply 'Anything Goes" - it would be far more honest and would produce a far less hit-and-miss situation
It gets more and more like Brexit - "we do the damage, you make the sacrifices and compromise"
Jim