Brand Robins

So, my actual experience from folk music (and gaming, although I understand it’s not the norm in gaming) is that people don’t talk smack about how other town performers are doing it wrong — they either say “Yeah, that’s a smoking fiddle, but (my local music prodigy) would/does do that better, you should hear (him/her)” or call out to said local music prodigy to say “these folks are doing something weird, but I think it has legs.” And hope something new and great comes from the cross-pollination.