Fw: [mplpost] what's folk?

[estelle klein]

-----Original Message-----
From: estelle klein <estelle@kos.net>
To: Nancy A.White <multinan@interlog.com>
Date: August 11, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [mplpost] what's folk?


>Hi Nancy,
>Great response. Perhaps we could hear more about the humourous definitions
>that we all know exist.  These are the flip sides to all the serious stuff.
>They make interesting commentaries on perceptions of folk, aside from
>providing the necessary laughs.
>Estelle
><estelle@kos.net>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nancy A.White <multinan@interlog.com>
>To: maplepost@icomm.ca <maplepost@icomm.ca>
>Date: August 11, 2000 6:48 AM
>Subject: [mplpost] what's folk?
>
>
>>Hi there.
>>   This is for the "what's folk" thread.
>>   In 1975,when the gifted comedienne Gay Claitman was looking for a
>songwriter for a show called "Hey Seester Do You Want My Sailor?", someone
>recommended me.
>>   "Who is she?" Gay asked.
>>   "Well, she's a folksinger," the person replied.
>>    Gay told me she almost didn't call me because to her, a folksinger was
>someone who sang "a twenty-minute song about an old man".
>>    After I heard that story, I started describing my stuff as "cabaret".
>>
>>     I've always worried about being too folkie (tedious? mired in the
>60's? ) or not folkie enough. When I first came to Toronto the story was
>that Tam Kearney would only hire traditional singers to play at Fiddler's
>Green. But I bravely did a guest set and he booked me, probably because I
>really really loved his jokes and his fabulous accent. (you know he just
>puts it on; he's actually from Pittsburgh.)  And, face it, I DID have a
>banjo.
>>
>>      Actually, I think a lot of it is instrumentation. I tried to put
>together a bluegrass version of 'La Vida Loca' and it would have worked
just
>fine except that I couldn't, just couldn't, memorize the words. Same thing
>with "I Know That My Heart Will Go On". It sounds much better on banjo, and
>of course if Madame Dion had a lovely voice like mine she could have made
>something of herself. I would love to hear Skrüj McDuk do that tune. (Oh
>God, remember J.P.Ringwort and the Heartbreak of Psoriasis doing the
>bluegrass "Suzanne"? Heavenly! of course that was a folksong in the first
>place.)
>>
>>     Yeah, "homegrown music from the heart" sticks in my craw too. It's
>like we made our own zithers out of popsicle sticks and elastic bands.
>>
>>     Well, this is inarticulate blather, but since it's on-line I will of
>course let it go. just wanted really to pass on Gay Claitman's definition
of
>a folk music.
>>
>>     See you at Home County?  I am opening for Fred Eaglesmith on Sunday
>afternoon! Speaking of which, I read a quote from Fred who said folk music
>was "the kindergarten of music".  Chew on that!
>>
>>adios,
>>nancita
>>
>>
>>
>>Nancy White. singer-songwriter
>>Toronto/Canada
>>
>>http://www.nancy-white.com
>>nancy@nancy-white.com
>>
>>"Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television." Gore Vidal.
>>
>>
>>Bookings: Campbell Webster Entertainment. (902) 566-3346. cwebster@isn.net
>>Nancy's cd's and tapes are available from 1-800 JOE RADIO or online from
><www.coolname.com/coma>
>>
>>
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