Re: I love fROOTS

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:32:41 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.music.folk
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In article <5+weOzGVRYF$email-address-deleted>, Steve Mansfield wrote:
> Since the detractors obviously feel there is a need and a market for a
> national strict-English-folk-club-music only magazine, what exactly is
> stopping them doing what the fRoots team did, and starting one?
It's a smaller market and it's already covered by Folk on Tap, Living
Tradition and quite possibly others. (The newly-revamped EDS I suppose)
Ian does have a point, though. English music needs to be put on show
with the rest of world music, and I applaud fRoots for doing just that.
I don't subscribe to fRoots anymore, not because of any failure to cover
English music, but because it contains so much stuff that I'm not
sufficiently interested in to read. What makes it to the pages of fRoots
has of necessity to be high profile stuff. Not all folk music is about
performing on stage to an audience of 2000 at an international festival,
and a lot of "world" music sounds to me like pop music in a foreign
language.
It's not that I'm uninterested in music from other countries. A couple
of years I spent a week in the middle of Bulgaria with traditional
musicians, trying to learn to play their instruments and dance their
(and Romanian and Macedonian) dances - but I doubt if those musicians
will be featured in the pages of fRoots - they're fabulous players but
they just aren't superstars.
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