Nowhere did I say no one but people of Celtic ancestries can play Celtic music.

If one feels there is a thing called "Celtic" music, and agrees that it *does* relate to ancestry and communities in which the music traditions of Celtic peoples were handed down, that is enough for me.

To suggest that Steeleye Span should be filed under Celtic music because Celtic peoples and Anglo Saxon peoples have inter-married down through the centuries is ludicrous.

If the term Celtic is to be meaningful in any way, it needs to have limits and boundaries--this is Celtic, this in not Celtic, no?

There is plenty of music from Celtic countries that *doesn't* get played by English people. Songs in the Celtic languages, for instance. There is no historic record showing London balladeers singing Gaelic waulking songs. What are we to presume from those facts?

I don't care how the person who started this thread defines Celtic. I know how I define it, and I define in a way that at least gives it some meaning in terms of "a people" or "people of a certain ancestry".