I’ve met great female players who can play aggressive, driving music, but there are less of them at the top, getting the same number of well publicized gigs, awards, recognition, as male musicians (tune players - like Molleson said in the article, singers are in a different ball game). Maybe we want pounding stuff because instinctively we should be out hunting,” and Donald Shaw saying some odder things: “if a woman straps on an electric guitar, is she genuinely absolutely comfortable when she starts sweating?” The writer of the Guardian piece suggested that there is more of an appetite in the industry for “masculine” trad music, fast, driving, aggressive she quoted Simon Thoumire saying some odd things, like, "Maybe. Now and then the gender balance is 50/50, or once in a blue moon you will have a female dominated session, but I can’t honestly remember when that last happened to me. Trad music, at least in Scotland, remains a male dominated activity - not just at the professional level, but even at sessions with mostly amateur players. I thought the writer made some salient points.
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