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We hold a weekly session, every Sunday evening, in the upstairs function room of a pub ( our pub now, but not when we started!). The main organiser of this is a guy called Geoff Bibby, well-known in the folk world as he has run various folk clubs since the early 1960's - including the famous Paul Simon tour!
The problem we have is that this is an accoustic night, pure and simple. Yet people continually say to me, "Oh no, I couldn't come up there, I don't know any traditional folk music."
We have advertised in most of the usual ways, local press, posters, word of mouth, etc. but still have this sort of mental block.
We firmly believe that if people are playing/singing music, then it is folk music - be it bloody Greensleeves or Green Day!
At least half of the people who come to us, do so to try out songs they have written, without the pressures of a paying audience. This was the whole purpose of starting the sessions - to give any musicians a chance to try things out with a laugh if they go wrong and helpful suggestions from those who have already been there.
After all that, my actual question is, "How do we, as musicians, stop everybody from putting us into set categories when we are doing it to ourselves?"
The problem we have is that this is an accoustic night, pure and simple. Yet people continually say to me, "Oh no, I couldn't come up there, I don't know any traditional folk music."
We have advertised in most of the usual ways, local press, posters, word of mouth, etc. but still have this sort of mental block.
We firmly believe that if people are playing/singing music, then it is folk music - be it bloody Greensleeves or Green Day!
At least half of the people who come to us, do so to try out songs they have written, without the pressures of a paying audience. This was the whole purpose of starting the sessions - to give any musicians a chance to try things out with a laugh if they go wrong and helpful suggestions from those who have already been there.
After all that, my actual question is, "How do we, as musicians, stop everybody from putting us into set categories when we are doing it to ourselves?"
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