We'll be there. As already said in the previous postings, for anybody looking for a good singing weekend, this is it.

The only thing I will disagree with, is the myth that is growing up about the type of sing that is supposedly in each of the tents. The Middle Bar is the Anchor on an away weekend by encouragement, and a shanty group may run chose to run a shanty session, but other than that the sessions take on the character that those attending create. There is definitely not a 'quiet' tent.

Over the last two years, her ladyship and I have run most of the sessions in the top tent. It's run as an orderly session to give everybody a fair opportunity, but we have never been given any instructions about the type of session we should be running, or do we set any rules. What gets sung is the choice of the individual singers. It's only a quiet singaroung if the people attending chose to sing quiet songs. Personnally, I think it's the best and most varied session at the festival, with a mixture of raucous and quiet, serious and (extremely) silly. But I'm biased, and don't get much chance to see very much of what is going on elsewhere.

We don't yet know what we'll be assigned to do at this years festival. If we're running a session anywhere, please feel free to drop in and sing whatever you like. We might even allow you to buy us a pint!

All the best, see you there.

Brian