The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167625   Message #4046018
Posted By: SPB-Cooperator
14-Apr-20 - 08:56 AM
Thread Name: Pruning One's Repertoire
Subject: Pruning One's Repertoire
With the emergence of virtual singerounds, I started looking through my 'repertoire' book, and I am finding myself asking 'Did I really learn that?' Where 'that' is more akin to stamp clubs - concentrating on quantity rather than quality.

A lot of 'that' for me are songs that I picked up from records or radio programmes, with little effort to research beyond the sleeve notes.

I want to get out and about again when the pandemic is over - although there is a lot of competition (non folk/music) for my time.

As far as see, there are two genres that I ought to focus on sea songs and music hall, both of which I have spent decades studying as well as performing. I have an interest in Bohemian and Moravian traditonal music, neither of which I have practiced up to a level to perform, everything else I find myslef asking myself what the reason for performing it would be.