Otley has to be my favourite weekend festival this year. I'm definitly planning on returning next year.
It was raining hard when we arrived but we managed to get indoor camping at the scout hut which was very cosy. We couldn't get season tickets until Sunday (a day ticket) so we spent most of the weekend wandering around the various sessions, usually ending up in the marquee at The Manor. Hi Wullie!
My highlights:
Tanglefoot. A really great bunch of guys;
Huge English fried breakfast including a pint mug of Tea for £2.65 at the Riverside Cafe!
Friday & Saturday night sessions at The Manor;
The Poetry session in the Con Club, Les Barker, Kevin Collier and the poem-around;
Three up Front, (There's actually five of them, all mega talented!);
Tanglefoot!;
The Bowling Green (pub), not for the music just for the incredible collection of "junk" hung on the walls and off the ceiling, including at least two stuffed crocodiles!;
Trying to promote the Wooden Pocket Bodhran to the lady who clais to have invented it!. (The other wood-turners did a great trade in wooden pestles and mortars!);
Kate Rusby, as always;
Did I mentioned Tanglefoot?;

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