Re: Column: Writing About Bluegrass, Warts and All
There are plenty of famous people who's behavior has turned me off of their work. There are specific directors who's works (even though lauded as excellent) I won't see. The person and their craft are often tied together for me. It's a pretty high bar for someone's bad behavior to get on that list but, yes. how a person behaves and treats others is pretty important to me.
I volunteer at the Philly Folk Festival and I give credentials out to performers when they arrive at the fest. I can say that with only a few exceptions everyone I have met from local artists to world known performers have been pleasant and understanding, and enjoy being helped. One or two were having a bad day and I haven't met any that were just jerks (but we did have a performer who never showed up never called and left her band in a lurch on stage - totally uncool and I wouldn't buy anymore of her stuff.
We're all human and we all have bad days but, if I know you're awful, I'll pass your stuff by.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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