I'm with you there. It's right to recieve money if one is doing the magic in a context where there is money to be paid. OTOH, it may well be wrong to withhold said magic where good could be done, and where the money is not, purely for that reason. Ie, give a little, it's good for you, but as Redaxe says, it's ok to make a living.
Bear in mind that in a looser, less populous, more community minded, er, community, then there would not perhaps be such hard lines between money and its lack, a job and unemployment, payment and non-payment.
I have included my harp in paid gigs on a few occasions, I realise, but when playing for handfastings and rituals, it's tended to be as a gift - albeit one in exchange for which I have often been given a bed for the night, a meal, in one case a brooch with a harp on it. Gift for gift... not quite the same thing as payment. Pay me £x or no deal... well, I might have such a conversation with a promoter who's in the business of paying acts to perform, but I'd be less likely to have it with a non-profit concern.
Again, that doesn't mean I'll play for any charity for nothing. Groups with which I have had associations or affiliations, however, have certainly had the right to ask for a little magic without money changing hands.
You will have realised that for me, music *is* magic. My tuppenyworth.
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Date: 2009-03-17 09:51 am (UTC)Bear in mind that in a looser, less populous, more community minded, er, community, then there would not perhaps be such hard lines between money and its lack, a job and unemployment, payment and non-payment.
I have included my harp in paid gigs on a few occasions, I realise, but when playing for handfastings and rituals, it's tended to be as a gift - albeit one in exchange for which I have often been given a bed for the night, a meal, in one case a brooch with a harp on it. Gift for gift... not quite the same thing as payment. Pay me £x or no deal... well, I might have such a conversation with a promoter who's in the business of paying acts to perform, but I'd be less likely to have it with a non-profit concern.
Again, that doesn't mean I'll play for any charity for nothing. Groups with which I have had associations or affiliations, however, have certainly had the right to ask for a little magic without money changing hands.
You will have realised that for me, music *is* magic. My tuppenyworth.