CCE Good points and Bad points (Comhaltas)

Subject: RE: CCE Good points and Bad points (Comhaltas)
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 09:48 AM

No you have not. But your obviously not interested in discussing this at all. Good luck with it.

Subject: RE: CCE Good points and Bad points (Comhaltas)
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 11:14 AM

The improvements in my two local branches are more non competitive musical get togethers
if you read back you will see that was mentioned before.
therehas been some inaccurate stupid statements from Jim about Bantry , if jim ever botherd to check his facts,HE WOULD NEVER HAVE SAID SUCH TRIPE ,we all know that Clare is the stronghold of trad music, but to dismiss other place on the strength of one visit and one conversation is typical, if he checked the net he would have seen the two trad festivals, and the major classical music festival,
the problem lies with publicans. who if it were not for tourist demand would book no trad music and book middle of the road easy listening only OR COUNTRY AND IRISH,
noNe of which is the fault of CCE

Subject: RE: CCE Good points and Bad points (Comhaltas)
From: j0_77
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 12:03 PM

I hear a squeak in my gears!

To help the doubters on this issue, let me instance how nasty Cultass has become in the US.

Having ruined our open folk jam here, that is they snuffed it out, they set about organizing by committee several things to appear to the Irish-American community to be doing something good.

At one of these events I was given the door by one of their gombeen apprentices because Cultass in their infinite stupidity had put the empty chairless room off limits. I just needed to tune up my stuff.

Now this individual has a long history of belittling the Irish, referring to them as 'micks'. It was only when he realized he could force the few who would listen and put up with his scratching on the fiddle that he joined, and paid his $39.00.

So here we have non-Irish anti-Irish bigoted scumbags abusing the Irish.

It is not so much that Cultass isn't adapting to change as that it is complying with non-musician eejits eager to get more Eurodollars for their own little stupid eejit schemes. So recruiting anti-irish people seems to be the way to go, at least here in my part of the world.

And let me add there is no shortage of nastiness towards the Irish in unexpected places as I very rudely found when collecting OT Gospel music. Still posted on shop doors I have seen the signs "No Irish". So it is not hard to find anti-Irish sentiment even among Hispanics!

Too, since the nastiness of their main bully here, who is NOT a musician but is native Irish, moved onto the net, I and most of the gang that used go to the folk jam do not now share what we have in public. That is, we keep our Irish trad at home and perform American folk out. As I already report we are keeping it secret so that we can keep it safe from the tune butchers and fair-weather types who have smothered Irtrad in crap here in the US South.

Now dear apologists, tell me why I should have any respect for Cultass?

Subject: RE: CCE Good points and Bad points (Comhaltas)
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 05:31 PM

Some things you just can't make up.

Meanwhile over on the session.org:

Trad musicians in Bantry?

Perhaps someone could direct them to the two festivals?