No, not at all....I can see it. Ye gods, got a much more candid story of what it'd be like after listening to a musician at O'Flaherty's last month talk about being raised in that tradition in Ireland. He and his family were itinerant musicians by tradition; he had 10 brothers and sisters who were all born and raised in one of those. Their only income was his father's busking as they travelled around. I can only imagine...
It was truly the best, most memorable event of that whole weekend; listening to him telling his stories of how it was to live like that, the joys of it and the sorrows. They were horribly prejudiced against, as you can imagine. But really, after hearing his stories and seeing the emotions cross his face; doing it now as a lark would be one thing; living that way as a 3rd generation would be something else again.
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Date: 2007-11-15 04:58 pm (UTC)It was truly the best, most memorable event of that whole weekend; listening to him telling his stories of how it was to live like that, the joys of it and the sorrows. They were horribly prejudiced against, as you can imagine. But really, after hearing his stories and seeing the emotions cross his face; doing it now as a lark would be one thing; living that way as a 3rd generation would be something else again.