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There's a particular toughness about standing up in front of a room full of people and singing a song, unaccompanied and unamplified, from memory. There seems to be no strict correlation between the ability to do this and general social confidence - if anything a negative correlation. Dominic On 3/24/06, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dominic thanks good start to the day -I got to wondering about > accompaniments -sometimes they seem to get into competition and piano type > arranged sounds for me are awfull gentrified > Cheers > P old folky P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dominic Fox > Sent: 23 March 2006 21:41 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: More folk ballads > > My sister Rebecca's added some recordings of her recent session at the > Birmingham Trad Music Club to her web page at codepoetics: > > http://www.codepoetics.com/rebecca_fox > > This is live folk music, mostly unaccompanied floor-singing, complete > with everybody else in the room joining in for the choruses. Another > rendition of the Bonny Light Horseman for Douglas's pleasure... > > Dominic > > -- > Shall we be pure or impure? Today > we shall be very pure. It must always > be possible to contain > impurities in a pure way. > --Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene > -- Shall we be pure or impure? Today we shall be very pure. It must always be possible to contain impurities in a pure way. --Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene