Are attendances really increasing ~ or is it just that those "ageing folkies" now have better paid jobs and can afford to go to more festivals or have retired from full time work and can spend the time at festivals?

One person I know is now retired, gets in his camper van and spends the whole of August travelling from venue to venue.... but he's the sort of person who likes sitting in concerts and listening. His youngest son is 16 and wouldn't be seen dead in a concert tent.

I think that many of the figures are inaccurate because it's the same people just going to more festivals. I meet people at Towersey that I saw at Sidmouth, the same audience in a concert at Whitby that were at Bedworth..... There are younger people coming into the scene, but how many of them really and truly come just because their parents are there?

LTS