Month: March 2015

  • Eclipsed!

    Fantastic eclipse of the sun this morning around Edinburgh and the clouds provided a great filter to allow me to very, very carefully take some photos:

  • Authenticity in the Folk Music Tradition

    What is this? Do we recognise it? I’ve heard rumours of musicians having been thrown out of sessions in Irish pubs because what they played wasn’t Irish enough. And that the display of a characteristic singing accent when rendering some northern English 19th century mining song is a badge of honour and evidence of authenticity…

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