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Hmmm, I expect this is a daft question and I may get slaughtered for posting it, but here goes. I've only had my Anglo C/G concertina 7 months, and I LOVE playing it - it's given me so much pleasure and is a daily source of joy. I'm learning through the Caitlin Nic Gabhann online course, mainly because when I first got my concertina and googled 'online concertina lessons' her course was the first one I found (along with Jack Talty's and the one from OAIM. ) So, by sheer accident and ignorance, I started off with ITM, rather than English folk music or another genre... The problem is that through colossal ignorance I've chosen to play an instrument that is used predominantly in musical genres that I don't really enjoy listening to. I'm not especially enamoured of ITM, but neither am I keen on English folk music or sea shanties. My tastes run more to old time music and americana, where the banjo and fiddle rule and there's no traditional role for the concertina. My husband plays clawhammer banjo and I think I fondly imagined us being able to play some tunes together...but there appears to be no common ground/shared tunes that are available for both clawhammer banjo players and concertina players. I think I may have to accept that my husband and I will have to play to each other rather than with each other. I can live with that, I guess, but I AM sad that I don't enjoy listening to the musical genre that I'm learning, as listening is such a huge part of learning an instrument. But, hard as I try, I can't warm to ITM or English folk music. You may be wondering why - with this distaste for ITM and English folk music - I chose to play concertina in the first place. The reason is embarrassing. A decade or so ago I went to an open-mike night in a pub and a man sang two Bob Dylan songs (Girl from the North Country and Boots of Spanish Leather) accompanied only by himself playing a concertina. I have no idea if it was an English or Anglo concertina...all I know is that I was absolutely mesmerised by his playing and I vowed that if I ever learned to play an instrument it would be a concertina. I had no idea they were used almost exclusively in ITM and English folk music and there was no place for a concertina in old time or americana music. I also didn't realise that the musician who so mesmerised me was a bit of an maverick in using them to accompany Dylan songs. Now...given that I love playing my instrument and certainly don't want to quit, what should I do if I can't force myself to love ITM or English folk music? Are there any other genres I could explore that might be more to my taste and perhaps have more in common with old time/americana? Recommendations of genres, musicians and tunes would be greatly appreciated!