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sunbob Wrote:

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> MrBen Wrote:

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> > There were some cool elderly bearded people

> > playing a weird english folk/sea shanty music.

> > They were really good but struggled to get the

> > mainly white, affluent middle class crowd to

> get

> > dancing

>

> Well, it was fun joining in with the dancing (at

> last I discover the true advantage of being stoney

> broke!)



Nice one Sunbob. When you next get some decent cash burn it and free your soul.


Soweto has hundreds dancing in the street. New Orleans has the Second Line tradition. East Dulwich has....the Shoulder Shuffle....

El Pibe Wrote:

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> i didn't realise folk appealed to anyone other

> than white middle class affluent errmm folk.


xxxxxx


You've obviously led a sheltered life then, El Pibe .....


Where do you think folk music comes from? Mostly far from the affluent middle classes, white or otherwise ....


But hey, the term "folk" music means very very different things to different people ....


You should have come to see Thomas McCarthy at The Ivy House last week. Irish traveller currently living in London. Fantastic singer. Place was rammed. Proper folk - none of your mimsy Mumford and Sons b******s :))


But hey, maybe all the people who came to see him were "white affluent middle class". We don't vet them before we let them buy a ticket :))

El Pibe Wrote:

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> *brushes chip from sue's shoulder*

> I do love a bit of folk me, perhaps I've just had

> one too many visits to the cambridge folk

> festival, it's nothing but wmcaf!!


xxxxxxx


Thanks, I feel much better now without that chip.


Cambridge Folk Festival is not a proppa folk festival these days.


They have some very strange headliners ....

Comments were passed on to Southwark Council Events team at the meeting last night, they are really grateful and appreciative of the feedback. They know not everything goes right on the day-we can't exactly have a dress rehearsal, mostly all played by ear on the day-but anything that can easily be tweaked will be.

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