There is a very active trad Irish music scene. I believe there is something similar in Scotland. Wales is famous for its male choirs but is there a trad music scene in Wales? I know about Morris Dancers in England but is there a trad music scene there?
What I mean is the music of the people - the music that 'ordinary' people sang and danced to in houses, at barn dances etc. A key part of courtship in the days before recorded music, TV or the Internet.
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See Mellstock Band:
https://www.davetownsendmusic.com/the-mellstock-band/
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Does this count?
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Ha, that reminds me of when Faith No More were on tops of the pops and Mike decided to make rude faces while the very obvious backing track vocals were still going
http://www.rabswoodguitars.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RabsWoodGuitars/
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Steeleye Span used to do a lot of material which was a modern interpretation of the traditional English aural storytelling and news spreading nature of folk music
That’s what I like, a modern re-telling, passed the songs on to the next generation rather than never moving past the Cecil Shrap ‘collected songs’, which trap them at a moment in time.
folk music (to me should evolve)
I think the tradition that's dying more is the music hall song. Some of these go back to the early 19th century and were the songs that everyone ( of many generations) knew and could sing around an upright piano in the pub or in the parlour. Songs of the industrial English working class so a Boiled Beef and Carrots gets overlooked for the exoticism of more obscure trad songs about lost maidens and land owners.
But it never vanished and there have been many revivals over the years, many based on the Welsh language music scene, and hybrids with folk music. There are more formal types of dancing and singing, as taught at schools, performed in competitions at eisteddfods etc.
Recently it has gained more credibility as younger, more ‘trendy’ bands and artists have emerged. But unlike Ireland you’d be lucky to stumble into a pub where there is a trad jam going on; I’m sure that if your in the scene you would get to know the rest quickly and know where to go. To be honest I wouldn’t mind having a go but not aware of any local sessions!
The most prominent band at the moment is Calan, who are using trad instruments in a more modern style:
https://youtu.be/jq7P1t3F8Vk
On Scotland, I recently discovered niteworks, who mix trad with electronic, and through them, Ellen Macdonald of Daimh who has a beautiful voice. I love the sound of Gaelic.
https://youtu.be/bOB-fOZ6SmY
Was deep in distress as the streets she strayed
Searching in every part
For her false sweetheart
And his ice-cream cart
Her English was bad it cannot be denied
And so to herself in Italian she cried,
Oh Oh Antonio he's gone away
Left me alonio, all on my ownio
I want to meet him with his new sweetheart
Then up will go Antonio and his ice-cream cart.
So sad grew the plight of this fair, young lass
She'd faint at the sight of an ice-cream glass
She'd dream nigh every day
He'd come back to stay
But he'd fade away
Her old hurdy-gurdy all day she'd parade
And this she would sing to each tune that it played.
She sought in despair for Antonio
And looked everywhere that she thought he would go
Soon she to pine began
As each face she'd scan
For her ice-cream man
She faded away, but they say in the streets
The ghost of that girl in Italian repeats.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Oh and my niece too.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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They are, well, the best IMHO