The Old Songs – a folk ‘disclaimer’




These are both parts of a film I made with Hannah Bond, as a way of explaining why I consider I play traditional rather than folk music. The dream is that when I start getting into this discussion again I can just say “Oh, I made a short film about it, it’s on YouTube…”

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  1. […] including James Bell and Ditte Elly. James has a wild English traddy/folky/thingness about him (he explains it better in his video), which is almost a polar opposite to the smooth and gentle approach of Ditte.  Both sets of […]

  2. […] to explain, the reason why I write these long ranty blog things (such as this and this) is because I assume that at some point someone is going to ask me my opinion on them.  And I have […]

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