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Thread #166789   Message #4014961
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
23-Oct-19 - 04:49 AM
Thread Name: The current state of folk music in UK
Subject: RE: The current state of folk music in UK
...and I hate to break it to you, Jim, but most of us are hobbyists. Aside from professional artists and the handful that make a living from folk academia, none of us are reliant on folk songs for our living. It is a passtime, an entertainment and even an education but so is keeping the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway open. So is enacting civil war battles. So is watching football. No matter how passionate you are about it, to most of us folk song is a hobby.