Derek writes:
| The system seems designed to keep musicians out the country. So is it
| affecting the music? I think so- there are now more and more US-based
| 'celtic bands' and the need to import the real thing seems to have lessened.
| All the celtic music I heard in the US was
Oh dear, Derek. That is what I had guessed. Unfortunately, I would suspect
that this would lead to all sorts of other problems -- like diminished interest
in the U.S. for music from Scotland, more control by the biggest corporations
producing Celtic anythings, some performers moving to the U.S.
