North Yorkshire Arts Establishment Insults Folk Arts and Folk Musicians in the County
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There was a recent conference in York for this Organisation and I was due to talk about the Yorkshire Garland Project and about 6 Folk clubs I was representing throughout the County including The Award Winning Black Swan Folk Club, York. The Organiser scheduled me to speak after the Plenary Session at the end of the Day.
I had a bit of a to do with her as I thought this was insulting to those I was to represent and typical of the North Yorkshire Arts Establishment and so did not attend. Her reply was to pat herself and North Yorks on the back and to tell me that if Folk was missing from the site and from the consideration of NY Arts it was the Clubs’ own fault for not putting themselves on the wonderful site (its actually rather basic).
Anyway, everyone needs to get on the site, swamp it and show them that Folk is a considerable economic force in the County. Can Yorkshire Folk Arts help to publicise the site and encourage Clubs, Dance societies and Festivals to get signed up. It is a free DIY site.
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Tony Morris.
