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Thread #116493   Message #2504030
Posted By: Sleepy Rosie
29-Nov-08 - 03:38 AM
Thread Name: Friendly Intimate Folk Festivals? (UK)
Subject: RE: Friendly Intimate Folk Festivals? (UK)
Well thanks to VTam's kind offer, looks like I'll deffo be going to Good Intent! It'll be an all new experience for me, and will be very interesting to take in all the other traditional folk stuff that in past I've only had very minimal exposure to. That in itself will make it worthwhile.

Really love the sound of Old NicKilby & Bonecrunchers 'Wail' next to the New Forest. Ancient English Woodland, singing and a Mediaeval Banquet/midnight feast to boot: have tent and walking boots and camera (and a sachet of Resolve by the sounds of things...), will travel.

And Frank Finns 'Sligo Traditional Singing Weekend' looks really scrummy. The storytelling aspect really appeals, I still have fond memories of being captivated by my Irish Grandfathers ability to fill my mind with complete and utter fantasy, and yet make it utterly convincing! Usually tales of a moral kind involving supernatural elements. I think my mother was virtually in her teens before she started to suspect that the fairies might not actually be real... Also the chance to hear some Sean Nos maybe? Though I think I might possibly want to tack a weekend like that onto a longer weeks hol.

Cheers for suggestions thus far, any further takers?