Thanks for this Steve -- very bracing. A couple things stand out to me. This week they announced that the 45 year old Vancouver Folk Music Festival maybe OVER... Permanently disbanded -- so I am feeling melancholy about that. But your piece reminded me of my favourite folk fest shirt / slogan of all time: "Real music in a sea of shit!". Also -- I trust you saw Nick Cave's critique of Chat GPT AI? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/17/this-song-sucks-nick-cave-responds-to-chatgpt-song-written-in-style-of-nick-cave
Thanks for this Steve -- very bracing. A couple things stand out to me. This week they announced that the 45 year old Vancouver Folk Music Festival maybe OVER... Permanently disbanded -- so I am feeling melancholy about that. But your piece reminded me of my favourite folk fest shirt / slogan of all time: "Real music in a sea of shit!". Also -- I trust you saw Nick Cave's critique of Chat GPT AI? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/17/this-song-sucks-nick-cave-responds-to-chatgpt-song-written-in-style-of-nick-cave