world music, anyone?

The consensus on this year's Montreal Jazz Festival is that everyone is tired of it. It's basically just World Music. Which means Music not invented by White People.

I appreciate the bind the organizers are in. I mean, people don't actually want to see that many jazz acts. But you have to keep calling it a Jazz festival or else the Americans won't come. The cachet will be gone. People at your office will snicker if you show up at the company picnic wearing a "World Music Festival" souvenir t-shirt.

But c'mon. if AC/DC was playing Montreal in early July, they'd be on the bloody festival programme cover.