Mary Black & Cambridge Folk Festival

[-M.C.CHIN]

In article <cornell.4...@srvnac1.nac.ac.za>,
John Cornell <cor...@srvnac1.nac.ac.za> wrote:
>I just (belatedly) heard some of Mary Black's singing at this year's Cabridge
>Folk Festival... Great voice, but is this stuff "folk music"?
>
>Granted that SOME of it, like "Holy Ground" from her latest album is real
>folky, some of the other stuff she sang at Cambridge sounded (to me) like
>night-club music: what is disparagingly called "easy listening" in some CD
>shops....

Well, a definition of "folk music" is always going to
be hazy at best. I am a big fan of Mary Black, but I do agree
not all of it is what I would consider folk. I'd put it more in
the Irish singer-doing-folk/pop- songs category (along with
say Maura O'Connell, who does more country-flavored stuff, and
Mary's sister Frances Black, who sometimes favors even more
of a "pop" sound when she's not covering Nanci Griffith's songs).
Whatever it is, I really like the songs she sings the way
she does them. Generally speaking,
I think _Holy Ground_ the album
is her best yet and more of a folk album than her other two
mainstream releases _No Frontiers_ and _Babes in the Woods_.
Don't know about her previous releases which I hear have more
traditional songs on them.
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[John Cornell]

I just (belatedly) heard some of Mary Black's singing at this year's Cabridge
Folk Festival... Great voice, but is this stuff "folk music"?

Granted that SOME of it, like "Holy Ground" from her latest album is real
folky, some of the other stuff she sang at Cambridge sounded (to me) like
night-club music: what is disparagingly called "easy listening" in some CD
shops....

Any comment?

[SheliT]

In article <Cyyq4...@nntpa.cb.att.com>, mc...@hocpc.ho.att.com
(-M.C.CHIN) writes:

Do you know if she will be performing in LA?

[John Cornell]

In article <39to0b$g...@newsbf01.news.aol.com> she...@aol.com (SheliT) writes:
>From: she...@aol.com (SheliT)
>Subject: Re: Mary Black & Cambridge Folk Festival
>Date: 10 Nov 1994 13:15:39 -0500

>In article <Cyyq4...@nntpa.cb.att.com>, mc...@hocpc.ho.att.com
>(-M.C.CHIN) writes:

>Do you know if she will be performing in LA?

Uh, er... that was Cambridge, England.... OK?