All the partipants of the two local sessions and all the others across the country wanted was to enjoy making folk music in a perfectly safe pub. This council and others did/do not see the risk to this activity to be important or to impact on them in any practical sense. They may now?

The threat or risk to the success of this 2nd festival is by the fact that the council have organised it. Is it not true that all of the main acts are to appear in the council owned Pavilion theatre?

It is this association with a dubious partner that theatens the efforts of local supporters. Until they address this policy with this partner, it remains a fact that attempts for outside support, will be affected by this.

If you were involved in organising a children's event, you may recognise that partents may not be too keen to allow their children to attend, if the main organiser, on whose premises the event was to take place, was a known child-abuser..............

That is the reality of the problem that faces those whose do not wish to address the council's damaging and uncaring policy towards folk music but continue to urge people to support this festival in this form.

If support and pressure can be added and applied locally to get the policy changed NOW, the problem/risk/threat to this festival is lifted. This proposal has been placed before the Council. If the local supporters all took this theat to the festival to their councillors, many of whom are due for election in May it would certainly help us all.

As so many outside people have written and already done this, it is surely not expecting too much for the local folk to do so as well?

Or is it?