Ben and Mel DeYoung’s conversation about the Folk show this afternoon:

  The Michael Mcgoldrick album , Aurora you have coming up, i like it though i know he rubs some traditionalists the wrong way, i think he is really talented at orchestrating the different layers of sound
me: What bothers the trad folks about his stuff?
bblakeslee-drain: He re-mixes in some electronica, some tabala drums, and brass, I like all his albumns, but when you read reviewws of them, about half the people seem to frown on that kind of stuff.
me: Oh, yeah, I guess that would get them going! I didn’t remember those elements in the album…
  Yep, that’s a tabla, not a bodhran…
bblakeslee-drain: I think its a big plus, if 98% of other celtic stuff has a bodhran, its good soemone is mixing in other flavors. I mean, i love cake but the occational piece of pie isn’t a problem
me: I can see where the trad folks would think he’s sacrificing guts for pretty, but sometimes pretty is better
bblakeslee-drain: I’m looking forward to the Blind Bartimus version coming up, i haven’t heard that one b4
me: Yeah, sometimes the trad folk resist change. Kind of funny since many of the instruments they think of as trad havenen’t been used in celtic music for very long
bblakeslee-drain: Hello Leah.
me: Blind B is a bit primitive, but really good, imho
leahladybug: Hi Ben and Mel!
me: Hey, can I copy the preceeding to the forum and continue on from there…
bblakeslee-drain: Hah, i guess we should be there, right?
leahladybug: Didn’t mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, but was gettin’ some education while I was listening to the show!
bblakeslee-drain: Hah, no problems.

Figured I’d follow up Blind Bartemus with something very pretty from Matt and Shannon Heaton…

Terry Allen’s Big Ol White Boys is going to change the mood a bit though!

the santoor sounds like it would be real complicated to learn to play, fun though. Songs just switched to accordian, i LOVE it.

The song by the Heatons, is that a traditional tune? I can’t see ‘Botany Bay’ without thinking about Star Trek, if its a traditional tune, than of course its not alluding to that, but if they wrote it… though i guess sometimes an Austrialian bay is just an Austrailian bay…

I have it listed as Trad,  but I can’t think of another group that does it…

Dentdelion playing now,  one of Sally Driscoll’s favorite bands.  Hope we can bring them to State College sometime…

I loved the Baka Beyond, thats the one album of theirs i don’t have, so it was great to hear something new from them (new to me at least).

How did you all do the conversational piece? Can I have a forum of sorts going when I do my show Saturday morning? I’ve been tweeting to all my fans on my shows but mom says she can’t read them anymore and I don’t know any other listeners that are on my tweet list. To get all the folk show forum would be like a lot!

whats a tabla look like? I saw Bodruns when I was in Ireland. Maybe I saw a tabla?

paulrutter - 16 September 2010 10:16 PM

How did you all do the conversational piece? Can I have a forum of sorts going when I do my show Saturday morning? I’ve been tweeting to all my fans on my shows but mom says she can’t read them anymore and I don’t know any other listeners that are on my tweet list. To get all the folk show forum would be like a lot!

Mel and I were chatting in the playlist database (that’s the part he pasted) and then he realized we should probably just move it to the forum. So then it was just regular posts. I think it would be great to incorporate posts into your shows though, especially if you would like to give extra details about the tracks your playing that we normally wouldn’t have time for during the short breaks.

I like dialoging with our listeners. Phone calls and tweets are the only live things I know how to do. You can tell I’m a huge social media guy, plus my iPad can’t pick up the Internet WiFi in the studio.

Another possibility is to chat via the Facebook group. Hmm, or rather, now that i think about it maybe we can’t b/c its a group even though you are an admin there. I haven’t tried that, i’m not sure.  Maybe another reason to make a public figure page instead? Just some thoughts. -bd