Steve Gardham said:-
"Could it just be that Scarborough Council are deliberately making things difficult in Whitby so we'll move to Scarborough????Hmmmm!"

This is a question we have asked several times over the last few years, we know that Scarborough Council (who are also Whitby's council)invited Malcolm Storey to take 'his' festival to Scarborough.
The gist of his reply was 'NO!'

We also know someone who has for many years been involved in the National Student Drama Festival, a week long event in Scarborough, and is also involved in Whitby Folk Week. He has always said that whilst being an ideal venue for the former it does not have the facillities for Folk Week (availiable concert venues, small venues, camping etc) and what it does have are too far apart. NSDF is held in The Week Before Easter when not much else is happening.
WHITBY Folk Week isn't. QED

Cheers
Mike