I agree with the suggestion of traders fees. So often you get the same traders doing the same festivals because they're the only ones who can afford the extortionate fees. I no longer bother much with the Craft Tent at Towersey unless I need new sandals, because I know without looking that the stalls in it will be selling wine, woodwork, handmade shoes, leather goods, a certain brand of printed Tshirts, amber jewellery at vastly inflated prices compared with the continent and a pottery stall. There are some differences, but those 7 stalls have been at Towersey for almost as long as I have. Now it's nice to have some continuity, but variety is the spice of life!

I'd like to see variety in the food stalls too. If you attend 3 major festivals, particularly if you're in the south east/west, you get the same stalls. One year, the crepe wagon from Sidmouth turned up at Towersey and had my preferred crepe waiting for me as I got to the front of the line!

I go to a festival because I want to sing new songs, relearn old ones and maybe listen to a new act I'd never usually get to see. What I want from a festival is a challenge, something to entertain me, to encourage me and to involve me. That's easily done, isn't it?! *BG*

LTS