Paul, we went to the Watersons concert, and straight after we went to the football club. As we walked in, we could see some people in a circle at the other end of the room, but couldn't get anywhere near because of the other people sitting in the seats in rows and the noisy bar. We sat for a while, hoping to get somewhere near the circle, but gave up because of the crowding and the noise.

On Friday night, as far as I could see there was the same noisy bar and rows of seats and the same 2 or 3 people leading all the singing at the other end of the room. We were lucky to get a seat just inside the door.

My idea of a session, for a start (and I am talking particularly about a singing session) is a situation where everyone sits around the room where they can be seen/heard by whoever is running the session, and where possible, everyone has a turn in singing at least one song if they want to. In other words, a singaround.

It sounds like if we had been prepared to forego the Watersons, we might have made it to the circle, but by the time we got there, we couldn't get anywhere near it. I'm not saying this is your fault at all. Obviously you were doing the best you could, but a long fairly narrow room with the singing circle at the far end with a noisy bar and rows of seats to get past just doesn't work IMO.

Noreen, every time we walked past the beer tent, we could only hear Irish music. On Friday night, we left the festival site after spending about an hour in the football club, probably about 1am. I guess the singing in the beer tent must have started after that.

Tonight, around 9-9,30pm, apart from a small tune session in one pub, the town looked nearly deserted. Most people were down at the festival site. The final concert was on, there was an Irish sounding session in the beer tent, and the football club was closed.

All I know is that this was a very different Bromyard from the way it was two years ago. There were singing sessions in the Hop Pole almost every time we went in there in 2008. We started this thread, hoping that the singers would find each other. We kept checking to see if anyone knew where there might be one, even tried to start one ourselves. Now after the event, people are saying we missed one here, or there, but that's no use now. It shouldn't be this hard.

Well, maybe somewhere different next year....