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Thread #166789 Message #4014628
Posted By: GUEST
21-Oct-19 - 03:50 AM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
"the music...???
or being within touching and smelling distance
of a bunch of the same old folkies you're stuck with week in and week out..."
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but one is dependent on the other
None of us same oold folkies would be here without the music)a very specific music) And we wouldn't have that music withoutt a bunch of us same olds hadn't got tgether to share the songs and the knowledge that we had gained from them
Do you think the songs and music got here in the first place because people loged into Utube, or read a book or boaught a broadside (as some would claim it did)
The thing that makess folk song unique is that is arises afrom shared experiences and aspirations and the desire top record them and pass them on
I live in rural Ireland - I think sometimes that people tend to forget how many people remain uncomputered and technology illiterate - certainly very many my age do (my partner Pat crosses herself and hangs up garlic at the sight of a computer screen and she was a skilled administrator of a swish upoholstry firm)
It is both arrogant and communal suicide to believe that we don't need the company of one another to be creative human beings
This ia almost as depresibng as the suggestion that we don't need folk clubs
Sad, sad, sad
I take it we have had an attack of cowardly, identity-grabbing trolls -
I have come to reagard this as one of the highest comliments to be awarded
Jim