ukfolkies website

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: bubblyrat
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 02:34 PM

Me too !!!

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 09:33 AM

Just joined

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:28 AM

No, no, anything but that!

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Fidjit
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 08:10 AM

Just asked for Melodeons to be included

Chas

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: melodeonboy
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 06:49 AM

Wot? Nothing for melodeons!

Or do the melodeonistas go to the "Real Life" section?? (tee-hee!)

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:35 AM

I get the impression that it might be trying to avoid two things that are seen here - drive-by trolls and discussion of "what is folk".

However, since so many English "Folk songs" (you know what I mean) survive mainly in the form re-learned from their last survival in the wild in Appalachia I am inclined to think that the UK/US linkage here is useful.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: DMcG
Date: 04 Jan 09 - 04:00 AM

Why split things up into so many separate areas anyway? The result is just going to be that no one subforum gets enough traffic to be viable.

I'd even go further than that. I'm not clear exactly what the site is trying to achieve that other sites don't. Unless there is a specific something, there's at least the chance that it simply diverts traffic from a struggling-but-surviving site so that you end up with two sites that aren't viable.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 08:41 PM

I quite like talking to banjo players.

there doesn't seem much happening on this UK site.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 08:14 PM

No point: you can't hear yourself.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:49 PM

does anybody want to talk to 5-string banjo players ????

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:38 PM

Why split things up into so many separate areas anyway? The result is just going to be that no one subforum gets enough traffic to be viable. Imagine what Mudcat would look like if it was made up of separate areas exclusively for children's songs, bawdy songs, guitar accompaniment, library resources, American folklore, German traditional music... none of the cross-fertilization that makes this such an interesting place could happen.

I'd be quite interested in discussing music with any of the three different kinds of banjo player that ukfolkies recognizes, but I would definitely have NOTHING in common with a tenor banjo player who didn't even want to talk to 5-string banjo players.

Come back and tell us when you've got an "anything goes" area.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:33 PM

There was no concertina section,I asked and one appeared.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Patrick_Costello
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:43 PM

The group started up after I gave a few workshops in the UK and Germany last year. A lot of the people involved are pretty new to music in general - in fact, quite a few people involved with the group started playing because of my online workshops.

For a small group of people together together for about a year, they are doing some pretty amazing things. This year saw the launch of the UK Folkies Retreat with a second event planned for '09, as well as a folk retreat in Germany.

In other words, a community of folk musicians without any of the baggage screwing up all of the other "scenes".

Get involved. You'll meet some good people.

-Patrick
http://tangiersound.wordpress.com

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Rasener
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:36 PM

Exactly. I have just asked for a section for folk club organisers. If you don't ask you don't get.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:32 PM

Thanks Dave.

Jack - I thought that too - nothing for singers of any description! but probably worth mentioning that to the webmaster, only way he'll know there's a demand...

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:26 PM

Not very interested in wind instruments, bagpipes, percussion, dancing or unaccompanied singers, are they?

Three banjo sub-forums though.

I don't think I'll bother.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:17 PM

I've just joined

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Folkiedave
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:01 PM

It's here.

Subject: RE: ukfolkies website
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:20 PM

I just googled "uk folkies" and couldn't see anything resembling a folk forum.

Please can you give us the actual URL or a link?

Ta! :)

Subject: ukfolkies website
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 10:17 AM

here is a new folk forum,google uk folkies