From Will Fly on Bellowhead thread 5th Oct 2010

"As it happens I almost never attend folk festivals, preferring on the whole to get my fix of traditional tunes from sessions which, because of the different people who attend, are each unique in flavour. "

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Meself & the chums do attend FF's but more on the fringes, attending sessions rather than the more formal concerts & scheduled events of the festival proper.

We also attend session only events in which there's no invited paid guests, just people who want to play music & sing together.


As Will intimates, we feel there's far more diversity of musics to be heard & enjoyed, especially in an active rather than passive 'being entertained on a plate' sort of way.


What think you?