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 Irish-influenced, apart from the | pipe bands. If you want to be Scottish, it's enough to put on a kilt. In | 2000 we played at Epcot as part of a millennium thing- all the folks there | wearing kilts were Canadian :(
Then there's Ambrose Bierce's definition, from his Devil's Dictionary: KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotsmen in America and Americans in Scotland. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
