A Good tune is a good tune no matter how old!

[Rob]

I meant on his shoulders!!

[Rob]

But cant stay i'm putting heads on The Goodfellas!!

[SRD]

I used to be involved with a folk club who put on a panto every New Year. One year we (the stage crew) made up a c&p picture of the main protagonists in the panto stuck onto an orgy scene from a mucky mag. We stuck it inside the 'invitation to the ball' card from the Palace to Cinderella's home. When it was opened the entire onstage cast corpsed, much to our entertainment and the audiences bemusement; as it was a mixed age group audience the cast couldn't even explain what had gone wrong.

[Antie Em]

Umm excuse me!! Speak for yourself!!

That was for myself

[mikleed]

jan and Rob........You pair are to near the mark ! what century do you live in ??

Mike.

[mikleed]

What a boring theatrical post ! ! !

Mike

[Northern Lass]

jan and Rob........You pair are to near the mark ! what century do you live in ??

Mike.

Mike Darling! you had a bevy!


Well I live in never never land
and Rob where ever he lays his hat that's his home!

[Northern Lass]

I used to be involved with a folk club who put on a panto every New Year. One year we (the stage crew) made up a c&p picture of the main protagonists in the panto stuck onto an orgy scene from a mucky mag. We stuck it inside the 'invitation to the ball' card from the Palace to Cinderella's home. When it was opened the entire onstage cast corpsed, much to our entertainment and the audiences bemusement; as it was a mixed age group audience the cast couldn't even explain what had gone wrong.

I was sort of involved with a drama group
it was great fun
some of them were very very good!

Boing Boing was excellent!
and
and Inspector calls

[SRD]

I do the website for our local Amdram. As you can see if you follow the link, it's not exactly up to date. Not that I'm particularly theatrical but it's so much fun watching your friends make fools of themselves.

[Rob]

jan and Rob........You pair are to near the mark ! what century do you live in ??

Mike.

Mike Darling! you had a bevy!


Well I live in never never land
and Rob where ever he lays his hat that's his home!

By the look in your eye I can tell you're gonna cry. Is it over me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tzY309xuYE

[Northern Lass]

You may be right I may be crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUmP-aS0fYM

but I may just be the lunatic you been looking for

[SRD]

A Sidney Carter song performed by Jon Boden as part of his A Folk Song A Day project:

http://www.afolksongaday.com/2011/01/22/john-ball/

You'll have to follow the link and play it from the site although you can download it from there for free by following the links to the podcasts.

If you can't be bothered to do that here's Chris Wood with his version:

[Rob]

Now i like a bit of folk music now and then.Fairport Convention,Maddy Prior and Harvey Andrews are my favourites but what intrigues me is the class distinction concerning this genre.
Am i right SDR or is it me being argumentative?

[SRD]

Nope, you're not wrong, although I know several right wing folkies (Peter Bellamy was one of the more famous and I'm pretty sure Bob Copper was a traditional working class Conservative) in the main it is left leaning. There are all sorts of reasons for this; the singing is rooted in the community, the pub, the chapel, the workplace, the music hall etc. the very places where socialism first grew and flourished. It was looked down on by the upcoming middle classes as common and not as good as 'proper' music (an attitude that still exists today amongst some parts of the classical music audience in this country, odd when they'll listen to Schubert's settings of German folk songs but dis Britten or Granger's efforts at the same, but, I have to say, there is an inverted snobbery in some parts of the folk music scene on the same subject). But mainly because the post war Folk Revival was driven by the same people as were active in such organisations as CND and the various socialist parties who have somewhat commandeered it. Nowadays performers tend to be those for whom socialism is an attractive option, people living from hand to mouth on very low incomes, travelling round the country performing in subsidised halls, possibly with grants from supporting Arts charities and quangos, and educated at the States expense with degrees in useless subjects like Folk Studies, Music, etc. Many of them have first hand experience of the inequalities of life and are stupid (or idealistic) enough to think that they might make a difference.
One of the reasons why the founders of the Folk Revival and their descendants have such an antipathy to the right wing is because in the early days of that revival the right wing actively discouraged the flowering of the rennaissance of the music by insisting that it was all old hat and not worth bothering with; that Britain needed a new music and not harkening back to the good old days, and continue to do so by reducing everything to economic terms by insisting on the withdrawal of financial support for places where the music can be heard, from withdrawing financial support from any education that doesn't have strict economic benefits and by withdrawing financial support for the performers whilst they are learning their trade. It seems a bit rich to them that the section of the community that has done least to support the music should then try and take advantage of it for their own political ends.

Not that I'm trying to be controversial or anything.

[Jimmy]

Kathy Kirby was one of my favs in the sixties,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmk2G7sn ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuskVND ... re=related