Before you all tell me that the answers are obvious, or to go read the old threads, let me explain why I am asking about this.
I am working on building up the local folk music scene hereabouts. A whole LOT of the people scattered about our rural county have a primary fopcus on bluegrass, and there is a tacit bluegrass community. They don't necessarily think of themselves as folkies, although it would not surprise me to see them attend folk-type concerts of several sorts. But they do NOT see these linkages as obvious.
I need copy I can use in PR, as I publicize OTHER folk forms, that will help show the link between ALL these musics, and draw the bluegrass folks out a bit. I wanted to include Klez, gypsy, and eastern-Euro musics in my thread title, but there wasn't room! *G*
My focus at the moment is on the instrument side of the music-- because the people here are players more than singers, as far as I can tell now.
So I am looking not only for your opinions and historical perspectives-- I am looking for some snappy paragraphs to put in my press releases, and frankly I do not know enough to draft it, even by studying the old threads.
So-- can you help me out, those of you who know your stuff in this regard, and can I please have your permission to use your words in my PR?