I love doing low comedy at fair almost as much as life itself, but I'm not so sure about music. I've been acquainted with many musicians who've become disillusioned with that particular venue over the years, and I can't blame them. Frankly, it's not a venue that rewards good musicianship. I really do miss having the abundance of musicians at fair that there were years ago, and I agree that there should be a concentration on the sound that isn't there much of the time.
I'll be the first to say that the standard of folk music coming out of fairs is not very good, although there are exceptions. A lot of groups just churn out a disc every year to rake in the ducats. Too many tapes I pick up (and put down) at fairs are the same songs everyone's heard four thousand times, with the only variation being some trademark clever verse or two. Good instrumentation gets lost because of bad studios or bad engineers. People who are jaded from doing the same crap year after year get callous and all joy drains from their performance. It's sad.
Like you say, it's all about the audience, or should be.
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Date: 2005-03-03 20:56 (UTC)I'll be the first to say that the standard of folk music coming out of fairs is not very good, although there are exceptions. A lot of groups just churn out a disc every year to rake in the ducats. Too many tapes I pick up (and put down) at fairs are the same songs everyone's heard four thousand times, with the only variation being some trademark clever verse or two. Good instrumentation gets lost because of bad studios or bad engineers. People who are jaded from doing the same crap year after year get callous and all joy drains from their performance. It's sad.
Like you say, it's all about the audience, or should be.