Folk and Traditional Music

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A community for all traditional styles of music, from Bluegrass and Bavarian Stubenmusi via Inuit music and djembé drumming from Ghana to Gamelan, Baltic choral music, Andean pan flutes and everything in between as long as it is handmade. This is a place for traditional culture, not nationalism.

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Pencil Full of Lead (folk version), Cameron Douglas and friends (piped.adminforge.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by emma@beehaw.org to c/folkmusic@feddit.de

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Can be played in a standard pub session setting on typical session instruments, just bring a kazoo. Check.
Slice of life, common folk details in the lyrics. Check.
Music derives from someone's tradition. Check.
Imma calling Paolo Nutini's joyous Pencil Full of Lead as modern trad/folk, even in his original bluesy/jazzy instrumentation, and no one's going to convince me otherwise ;P

Happy to use this to kick off a discussion on what constitutes trad and folk but I'm not changing my mind regarding this gem :D :D :D

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