Watch this space, but a new festival is about to be sprung in Dulverton, Somerset (or is it Devon?), organised partly by the local council in association with the duo of Gill Tolfrey (she of Witches of Elswick fame) and Maurice Condie (Newcastle guitarist extraordinaire).

Funding is already sorted and there will be four headline acts in concert, with a large proportion of the time planned for sessions. Maurice and Gill will be one of the four acts of course, and I understand that negotiations are underway to secure my favourite English male trad singer, JC (actually there are two, both my favourites sharing the same initials, but one is significantly older than the other; here we are talking about the younger one, not Johnny Collins). I don't know the full lineup yet, but will in a few days, and then I'll set up a festival website. Oh, I'll be there too.

Being young and brave, the dates for the new festival are 27-29 July. So, if Cambridge FF is too large an insufficiently participative for you, or Warwick not your cup of tea (lovely festival though it is, I admit), then Dulverton could be the solution for you, clotted cream teas and all.

More anon.