The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59862   Message #956391
Posted By: GUEST,Auldtimer
20-May-03 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: Folk for the Younger Generations.
Subject: RE: Folk for the Younger Generations.
You tell us.

In fact tell us how to attract more people of any age to attend clubs, festivals or sessions. I have never subscribed to going espicialy "allout" to get the young 'un's throug the doors. I would rather have more of all ages. There are many twenty five and under, musicians and players and quite a fiew, twenty and under, BUT where are the younger crowds coming along to festivals and clubs to see them ? More and more audences are becoming a sea of bald heads and white hair and recieding hairlines, including mine, while most long established artistes will shortly be applying for their bus passes, those that don't already have them. For me, thirty odd years ago a weekend festival = a weekend party. Good music and good company. The company would include all ages, twenties to sixties, shairing a joke and a song. Somehow all this changed as the old song goes "and we've got to find our way back to the garden"

cheers