Folk Tribute Bands?

Subject: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 06:12 AM

I쳌fm aware there쳌fs a plethora of rock/ pop bands around who쳌fve a sort of cult following in the form of tribute bands who perform covers of famous band쳌fs big hits.

As described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_act

Do any such ensembles exist in the folk world?

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:15 AM

Steady now we don't want to offend anybody .............. but then again .............

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:18 AM

I would just love to put on the cap, collarless shirt and braces and walk through the curtains saying "Tonight Matthew I am going to be Fred Jordan"

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:26 AM

.........or in that getup, you could even be Giblet O'Sullivan!!

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:34 AM

or a Wurzel

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,guest Betsy
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:35 AM

Or that chap who came on stage with his family relation who was in a wheel chair having lost both is legs in an accident.
With apologies to the Politically-correct, and anti-bad taste Society .........Wait for it

.... Simon and half Uncle .

Cheers Betsy

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:43 AM

God save us from "Folk Tribute Bands"!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:45 AM

Sorry, but I am old enough to regard The Copper Family as a tribute band to John, Jim, Ron and Bob!

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:46 AM

Here's Francis Rossi & Rick Parfitt lookalikes at Crewe Limelight: State of Quo!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wnIhWTjwKUU&feature=related

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:58 AM

I played with The Half-Remarkable Questionnaires ten years back; an Incredible String Band tribute band, supporting Dr Strangely Strange in Leeds! Does that count as folk I wonder? And word is there's a Fourth Ear Band in the offing...

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:00 AM

Isn't anyone who sings traditional material a (sort of) tribute act?

No, no! Only joking! Really!

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:17 AM

I was going to say that actually, Nigel - that all folkies (traditional or otherwise) are invariably paying tribute to someone or other by way of guilt-free plagiarism masquerading as 'folk process', or some other level of cultural reportage which is just fine by me, dears. Last night at Chorton I could have been on Stars in Your Eyes; Tonight, Les - I'm going to be Peter Bellamy singing The Housecarpenter - only I can't play Anglo, so I'm going to use a Black Sea Fiddle instead...

Corn Rigs was sung last night too, and very beautifully I might add, though the last time I sang this in public I was upbraided by some Wyrd Goths for singing it to the wrong tune, believing as they did that The Wicker Man soundtrack was somehow definitive, and to prove it one of them picked up a guitar and sang Giovanni's arrangement note perfect. Impressed? You bet.

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:33 AM

.......& then there's those irritating oiks who sing for example Christy Moor songs with a diablical 'oirish' accent, believing this to be a true rendering?

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 08:57 AM

Nigel's and Sedayne's point is a good one and Sedayne's rendering, dangerous word that, of the House Carpenter was certainly a living folk process.

I seem to remember lots of groups that could be termed tribute Spinners, who of course had obvious connections to the Weavers. A number of Peter, Paul and Marys in the 60's and quite a few Clancy Bros.

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Ken Brock
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:07 AM

Currently there are Weavermania in the Chicago area and Work o' the Weavers in the Eastern USA.   There's tons of tribute Kingston Trio acts, some of which post clips or articles at www.kingstontrioplace.com.

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:40 AM

Blue Tapestry and Foni Mitchell

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Peace
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 10:06 AM

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. Sheesh . . . .

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 11:35 AM

I could quite happily play with names of Tribute Bands believing they only exist in digi-space.

Ready ..........................

Stoleneye Span
Fairport Confection

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Bernard
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 12:02 PM

Erm... Tentangle?

Ticklefoot...

The Boot Band (sorry, Greg!).

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 12:04 PM

Kimbers Boys

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Bernard
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 12:16 PM

Joe Unstead...

Rachel Rethink and the Autumnset

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Ernest
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 02:03 AM

Sounds like a funny idea to drive the folk police to despair:

"Hey, your beard is 2 cm shorter than Ronnie Drew`s was when he started the Dubliners, plus you are not play the same brand of guitar he used back then and also pickups in acoustic guitars were not invented back then and....."

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Acorn4
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 02:56 AM

There is certainly a fellow on the circuit who does a Jake Thackray set - not actually a band but a tribute nonetheless!

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Splott Man
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 03:35 AM

Do you mean Fake Jackeray?

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Grab
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:33 AM

The Doubliners
The Misty Backside Boys
Artisan Well
Cherish the Babies

And not forgetting that German tribute band, Show of Hans (I'll get my coat...)

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:59 AM

There's this guy named Adrian O'Keefe who posts stuff on You-Tube who does only Christy Moore covers. He sounds and looks much like him.

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: GUEST,jeff
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 10:39 AM

One example from the USA, Chicago in particular was a show called 'Weavermania'. In the 'cast' were two of the finest American songwriters of a generation. Michael Smith and Tom Dundee(RIP). Doing Weavers' covers...? They did quite well with it for a while and I think it's still being revived from time to time.

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:00 AM

We do a Matt McGinn tribute night annually, but most of us don't try to look like him (a couple of exceptions to this): we do the songs, sometimes with appropriate costumes and props.e.g. huge blow-up banans, plus some real ones for "Have a Banana".

Subject: RE: Folk Tribute Bands?
From: Splott Man
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 11:23 AM

I do so many songs that I've been doing for years, I'm my own tribute act.