"riverdance" is a Broadway style show, meant to appeal to a middle of the road audience who will now include the soundtrack album with the rest of their collection of Sinatra, Streisand, Celine Dion etc. Nothin' wrong with that. They're not folkies and never will be....BUT maybe 1 out of a thousand will like it so much they might go to an Irish pub for the first time and hear a "Clancy-Dub" band singing "Black Velvet Band" and that might cause 'em to buy a Chieftans album, which might lead to..........before you know it, we got us a "Folkie", who then might accidently find the "mudcat", and be totally perplexed at who the "Corries" are, and why they aren't taken seriously. It doesn't matter. By then we've got em hooked!!

P.S. If it weren't for "Riverdance", I'd never have believed that Irish step-dancers could float so long and so high in the air! (do I have to say "grin" now?)