Ok so this was so bound to happen! Anyway, any comments on folk music/dance/song etc and how the media portrays it (the outlook looks grim for morris dancers!)?

Or any gigs/ceilidhs/sessions coming up?

Want to get involved in folkie stuff? They're welcoming to any instrument usually...I met a guy a few weeks ago playing folk tuba and trombone!

Always wondered what a melodeon is? Or maybe the difference between 'Bagpipes' (kilt related ones) and a cat having its tail pulled? Well don't ask me! Well anyway, yeah this thread doesn't really need much of an explanation.

I listen to Bob Dylan sometimes, does that make me a "fokie"? :)

Chris.

I was gonna put something about Bob Dylan....but there would be a few too many oldies going 'it's not about whether he can sing!". Not sure if it makes you a folkie, but yknow, each to their own!

Ok everybody, it's the Sheffield Folk Festival this october. It's the first year its gone on, and I wondered, if you aren't into that kind of thing, would you go along to a concert or two to see what its like?

I would go...but then i am into that kind of thing.

Had an funny argument with my step daughter over the weekend and she slatered some music the hubby was playing "but he can't sing it sounds awful"

Make sure you post MORE details on that festival.

Moon

wahey

im into rock/metal and quite a lot of "gothy" music but i will listen to anything that sounds good. just got back from whitby, i went for the folk festival weekend. some very good acts on and i met some lovely people. i caught the sun though *shock horror*

i go to stainsby festival as well every summer, i find the atmosphere is brilliant at things like that and the music is usually good.

im totally up for going to some local things

Anyone heard of a Folk-y band called "Candidate"?

They are great

I went to the Stainsby Festival (nr Chesterfield) last year, didnt do the full camping weekend thing, just went for the day, as you can buy day tickets.

Here is the web site of this years event

http://www.stainsbyfestival.org.uk/

Other good sites include South Yorkshire Folk

http://www.realukmusic.co.uk/syfolk/syframeset.htm

and the Sheffield Folk Festival

http://www.sheffieldfolkfestival.org/

Not that I am a folkie or anything, I just like live music especially acoustic music and go to lots of gigs.

Just to let you know (and trying not to cross-post) I have made a main thread with all the details of the upcoming Sheffield Folk Festival and it's first build up event (Fri 14th May) which can be found at:

Sheffield Folk Festival Thread (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10718)

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I must have been to nearly every folk festival going in the last 17 years...but never Stainsby, isn't that odd? Especially as its only down the road...maybe it clashes with another one.

PS - Holmfirth festival this weekend if you can get there...I'm going to support my friends Kerfuffle if you can go and watch them tomorrow (plug plug)

i don't even know what folk music is! so can't imagine what a festival is like

Originally posted by Bedhead
i don't even know what folk music is! so can't imagine what a festival is like

Woowww

Quote:
Originally posted by Bedhead
i don't even know what folk music is! so can't imagine what a festival is like


Woowww


:blush:

just out of interest whos the guy you met that plays folk tuba and trombone?? isnt nick hirst is it? well hes a mate of mine you see, used to be really good mates with him at school.
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I don't remember him (tbh tried to avoid him when he claimed to be able to play 'The Flight of the Bumble Bee' on the tuba), but I can ask around. It was at IVFDF (inter-varsity folk dance festival) in Exeter this February.