Where else can you get a ticket for a full week so cheaply (next year £164 for pensioners - less than £20 / day)

Folkies often have a strange idea of what is "expensive", if anything Whitby are under selling themselves.

There are a few commercial promoters around putting on folk (in the broad sense) gigs. The ones who succeed charge higher prices and fill their venues with people who wouldn't be seen dead in a folk club.