"But where else?. Pete's truly great voice only for a couple of hours each day, The Lord Nelson (if you can get in - or be arsed of course) and your place. That's it"

Oh really? What on earth have Tom and I been doing every evening for the last twenty-odd years then? I really thought that we were providing a place for anyone and everyone to have a chance of performing, although, I confess, we do have a booked artist doing half a dozen numbers in three and a half hours, as do the lunchtime singalongs in the Neptune, the music sessions in the Nelson, and the daily folk club - but primarily, all four exist for festival goers and anyone else who happens along to share our wonderful folk heritage.

So you could have "just a bit of what elsewhere offers". I'm not saying it's perfect, and there are acts there which are undoubtedly on the extreme edge of the folk genre, but there's plenty for 'real' folkies if they bother to look for it.

Barbara