That really is quite riduculous… and the truely sad part is that there are probably more!
Last year I had a friend that was looking to name a project she was working on so we went online to one of those band name generators just for kicks. We put in key words like “Irish” and “Folk”, etc. to see what silliness it came up with and one of the ones that stuck in our minds (and has now become a bit of an inside joke) was “Celtic Lust”.
I always thought it would be fun to use a picture of a bedraggled, soaked traveler hiking a muddy road through a good old Scottish “sideways rainstorm,” and call it “Celtic Journey.”
I don’t know the history well, but isn’t the notion of “Celtic music” recent, perhaps only in the past 40 years?
I wonder if there has been a great increase in borrowing between the various traditions in recent decades? Sure, there’s always been borrowing, but of this magnitude? If you go to “Celtic Spain” you’ll hear Celtic bands that could just as easily be Irish or English. When I visited Brittany a couple of years ago, I saw several young Bretons playing Highland pipes (and no one playing the traditional Breton bagpipes). Is the rise of “Celtic music” associated with the decline of regional musical traditions?