Hi Banjo Ray

Please don't blame the festival for your fraught situation. I understand it was a private arrangement with Soft Option and nothing directly to do with the festival. From your discussion with JP2 above it would seem to have been confused from the beginning! I don't think the festival would expect you to come and "perform without free tickets and camping".

As to the Morris venues - there will be displays in Hop Pole Square as usual - and at all the other usual venues, plus in the yard of the Queens which is currently undergoing restoration and a grand reopening in time for the festival. The landlord of the Crown and Sceptre (also undergoing restoration in time for the festival) will be running a real ale bar in front of the Hop Pole al fresco so there should be some appropriate atmosphere for the displays.

Connie