'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Danny
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 07:54 AM

I was just 18 and came up with my (then) girlfriend. Fantastic line up, especially ISB, Pentangle, James Taylor. I remember we ended up helping the caterers / beer tent people load up afterwards in exchenge for free booze and some travel money. Never again any festival like it for sheer concentration of so many fantastic acts

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,gogs
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 07:11 PM

Buffy St Marie was absolutely tremendous and as it was getting cold she asked if any guy had any room in his tent to warm her up! That brought a few shouts! The Byrds were excellent as were all the acts. Hard to believe that it was only £2! Can't remember a problem with the toilets. Hate to think what problems I'd have with that now!!!

I remember four of us travelling back to Scotland in a mini in horrendous mist. The threads have brought back wonderful memories. I still have a few of the flyers in mint condition if anyone wants one.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Guest Cymraeg
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:33 PM

This was my first festival. I was 16 and went with my then boyfriend whose mother lived near-by. I don't even remember how we got to the festival or the toilets! But I do remember The Byrds and Incredible String Band, who I was nuts about. I remember us trying to leave and gave up and put up our pup tent in what we thought was a field. No sleeping bags or change of clothes, oh to be young and free. Woke up next morning in the middle of a road interchange with cars wizzing all around us.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: danensis
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:26 PM

Amazed this thread is still going, but just to clarify, the list I gave above is from the original programme, and doesn't reflect the running order on the day. I would have stayed to hear Buffy StMarie, but my girlfriend (later my wife) was only 18 and her parents wanted her home - although as it happened we never arrived until the next day.

John

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 12:44 AM

This thread started in 2005.. like I said before.. "I think I'll die before it does" ... but oh such memories!!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Another who was there
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 11:18 AM

I remember the night before very well; I crashed in a marquee or something like it, next to a couple of Canadian backpackers & there were tomato sandwiches being passed around. Strange memories, waiting for the first act to appear and sitting listening to CS&N records over the PA, and gradually going through stoned to mellow....
The early hours of the next morning I had a ride to Lincoln, then hitched south and ended up walking for about three hours along the railroad line to where I lived at the time.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,dave
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 04:24 AM

do you still have any of the flyers -- would luv one as i have the prog and ticket

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 11 - 07:21 PM

Watched 18 minutes of footage from what looks like a local TV programme about this festival, introduced by Richard "Countdown" Whiteley. Interviews with James Taylor, Tom Paxton, etc -- looked to be a great festival.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: danensis
Date: 10 May 11 - 06:09 PM

http://www.btinternet.com/~stevengo/lincolnfolk.htm

John

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 23 May 11 - 08:04 AM

http://www.btinternet.com/~stevengo/lincolnfolk.htm

This is a link to a website I did a number of years ago. E-Mail me with more memories.
One day in our lives we all have fond memories of !

Rock on
Steve

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Kath
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 08:08 PM

I remember this well. I was at Lincoln Art College and the organisers had sent some posters for the college and 4 free tickets for our social secretary. But term had finished and everyone had gone home - just me and my friend Elaine tidying up our work. So we had 2 tickets each. I was working in a bar all summer and asked the boss for that Saturday off - he said no so I gave in my notice. Anyway he had to beg me to come back!!
I remember the Byrds being fantastic and sitting under the stars listening to James Taylor.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 09:00 PM

I was there for some of it - the best bits by all accounts. IIRC Buffy was top of the bill. I was chuffed that she had got that much recognition, and she didn't disappoint. Which reminds me that my first encounter with Billy Connolly was at Bishop Grosseteste (where I was a governor) a year or two earlier.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bill S from Adelaide
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 11:58 PM

I remember seing posters in London which listed just about everybody I wanted to hear. Got the special train to Lincoln, there was a connecting bus and probably unwittingly enjoyed some happy baccy. I vaguely remember that Tom Paxton came after the Byrds as the contrast and the sunset were quite magical. There was only one bus shuttling back to Lincoln, I managed to be on it so was one of a handful of people who were on the special train. I'd forgotten about the loos, thanks for reminding me. Not.
40 years ago.
They didn't have morris dancing, I'd never heard of it then.
Got a cople of photos somewhere, might put them on fb for the anniversary.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 02:06 AM

Refreshed in response to a new thread!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bill Rayner
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 07:58 AM

I'm glad I found this thread. This was the first 'festival' I had been to, went with my pal Stuart travelling up from Watford. Looking at the artists I had forgotten some! I see Tom Paxton on a regular basis when he is over and managed to see Buffy this week at Cornbury - she is still amazing at 70!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,WillC
Date: 15 Jul 11 - 02:59 PM

I googled Lincoln Folk Festival and found this thread having just come back from T in the Park with my 15 year old son. Lincoln in 1971 was my first festival; I was 14 and my elder brother drove me up there from Worcestershire in our mum's Mini Traveller, so I was trying to explain to my son the differences which 40 years have made to festivals....My least blurred memories are of Tom Paxton, The Byrds, and Buffy, but the stories for my son were of the toilets - especially the torching thereof, and the lack of any commercial food outlets, which meant that by mid morning on the day of the festival, the only local shop had been stripped completely bare of anything edible!! Happy days.....

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mick Stupp
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 04:43 AM

Most treasured weekend my life - a moment in time, and the music was excellent too. Never matched.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,another who was there
Date: 04 Sep 11 - 06:36 PM

hitched from south wales to get there - slept in a large pipe the night before about 30 miles from lincoln . . . only to wake up to four other people sleeping in the same concrete pipe! james taylor and the byrds stood out for me but an amazing music festival up there with bath and isle of white

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mike Robnson
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 03:20 AM

Remember the festival very well 5 of us went from Reading set up very early. Brilliant festival a long walk back to the car, including giving Julie a shoulder carry for a distance that seemed like miles. Warm sunny day just incredible. All the best.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Strummin Steve Jackson
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 03:48 PM

I wrote a song about this event entitled "The 1971 Folk Music Festival Blues" It was one of entries in the 2010 Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp. It didn't win but I was happy to make the final. It's on my (blatant commercial plug coming up) new CD "Songs For Folk To Sing
but in the true spirit of Christmas you can hear it for free at www.reverbnation.com/strumminstevejackson

I tried to list as many of the performers as I could in the song but I'm usually reminded at a gig that I've missed someone out!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bib
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 01:45 PM

My friend and I (the late Kevin Thorpe : Out of the Blue and Tipping Point)had hitched lifts all the way to Bangor in North Wales to see some friends on the Friday before - when we got there we were told they were going to Bardney (about 15 miles from where we had started!). We went to the festival with them leaving very early in the morning. No money!!! Just walked in (I remember the signs about snakes too). Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were my favoutites there. Lovely day - I fell asleep when Buffie St Marie was on - I was tired

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Phil Murphy
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 06:29 AM

What a brilliant day that was. We had walked from Chesterfield to Newark the previous day because none of the four of us wanted to split into twos to make hitching lifts easier. We ended up at Newark Station over night where a very officious Station Master would not let anyone onto the platform until the 4.30 milk train for Lincoln came, by which time the four of us had grown to about 40. There must be people who remember being there. The police came at least twice because the station master could smell some funny smoke. Then we walked the 12 miles from Lincoln out to the site on what was a bright sunny morning which would turn into a wet afternoon.
My recollection was that the Byrds were quite out of character and tone with the rest of the acts as they had such a polished audio and light system. Pentangle were drowned out by the sound of rain on the plastic sheets people had as rainwear but despite the weather the day was amazing and looking back the line-up was incredible. James Taylor, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, sandy Denny, Buffy St.Marie, Incredible String Band & The Byrds are the ones who really stand out to me now, though I actually recall all the acts being on - clearly i was not intoxicated.
What I cannot work out is how we found anything to eat after early morning.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 07:27 AM

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/s.html

Sandy Denny's set is here - scroll down to Sandy Denny & the Happy Blunderers!!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,bodhran terry
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 08:42 AM

Doesn't anyone remember the tree (or was that Weeley?) Soldier Blue - WOW! Purple Cloud over the site, (well, I saw it as purple!)

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Davy, Charlie . Ed . Cass.
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:22 AM

We were the first to arrive at the campsite on the Tuesday. Why I can't remember. A reporter came to interview us and managed to drive her car into deep ditch halfway across the field. It was amazing to watch the field fill up at first slowly then by hoards.
We camped right next to a tree in the middle of the field. So everyone that arrived on Wednesday and Thursday came our way to say hello. Including some hells angels. which was a bit of a worry but they seemed quite friendly. And gave us lift into town on their easy rider style bikes to buy ciggies and booze (no crash helmets). We spent the night swigging cider and wine mixed in the same large plastic bottle. Never been able to even think about that since. I don't know why but I keep on thinking we met Richard Branson at that event. ???

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,dennis poole
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 09:59 AM

Having just purchased Grateful Dead at Bickershaw CD I browsed for Lincoln '71 and came up with this forum. I recall the occasion far better than the music itself. I was just 18 and my brother had recently graduated. We were at a loose end and so decided to hitch from St.Helens to Lincoln. We set off from Windle Island on the A580 and after ages got stuck on the Mancunian Way. I will always remember the guy who picked us up in his mini and took us all the way to Lincoln via Sheffield. We got to the site in pitchblack and found a campfire to try and bed down only to be kept awake by some freak complaning about a lack of tatties on the fire. Call yourselves Hippies he kept saying. Entering the arena was a bit disconcerting due to the signs saying "beware of Adders." I recall the loo's as a bit long, deep trench. We met up with some girlfriends of mine, Val and Helen, who had been pea picking near Wisbech. We had really gone to see The Byrds and I recall they did an electric set, but had completely forgotten about James Taylor. If I had I would have dined out on the fact I'd seen him at the start of his career! Getting home was a similar adventure, involving coaches to Manchester and getting the first train back to St.Helens Junction and then a bus back home. However, the funniest moment was trying to negotiate a way out of the arena. I stumbled over someone's legs and in putting my hand down to stop my fall I ended up walloping some poor guy in the nuts. Even though it was dark I can still recall him jacknifing and the sound of him exhaling with a resounding oooooofffff still makes me laugh some 40 years later. Little things, little things!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Greg
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 05:18 AM

I was 17, in the lower sixth. I have no idea how it came together,but I went to Lincoln with Wendy and Joy, friends from school in Wendy's dad's Austin. I recall driving it into the field where we parked and almost getting stuck. I think I remember the tree, but really only two things stick out in my memory: Meeting James Taylor who was a hero of mine at the time, talking for a little while, then asking for his autograph, knowing how crass it sounded, and he said 'you know what a pile of crap this is'. Didn't I know it! The other is of the Byrds (more heroes) crashing into 'So you want to be a rock and roll star' under the lights. I was a bit of a folkie, but at that point I knew where I was going next. I wish I could say great memories, but they're really only mental snapshots - scenarios, after 40 odd years

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,trainspotter 52
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 06:19 AM

I was 22 and a graduate trainee at British Steel in Corby. We been out for our normal friday night session when someone mentioned this folk festival tomorrow at Lincoln. So following morning with hangovers we pile into a car and head up the A1 towards Lincoln Can remember getting lost a couple of times ( no sat navs then) and arriving just as the show started. I remember the Byrds coming on and playing an acoustic opening then announcing to the audience that it was supposed to be an acoutic festival "well Fuck that" and went into an incredible electric set. Other stand out sets for me were Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee; James Taylor and Buffy Saint Marie. It was certainly the greatest one day festival that I'd been to before or since. Sitting playing * miles high brings it all back

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Ianzblues
Date: 04 Aug 12 - 12:23 PM

Does anyone remember Rev. Gary Davis being at this event? It is listed on his itinerary for that tour, but none of the recollections posted here include him.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Malcolm Casey
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 02:55 AM

Hi Guys greeting from South Africa.
I remember this festivel very well.I was 19.
I was living in West Hartlepool and we whent to the local pub and there was a bus half full going to a festival.
Two thirds pissed thought why not.So me and my might got on the bus.
It was about 11 on the Friday Night.
By the time the bus got to Lincoln it was more than full.Picked up people on the way
Rember Ralph Mactell Strrets of London, The Birds were out of this world also liked tom Paxton.
However the best was Buffy St Marie. She dressed in full Indian Dress she was stunning.
When she started to sinf soldier blue the whols crowed went mad.
Remeber the long drop toilets food stalls which were few and far between.
I rember there was a music magazine there as well not NME it was another magazine.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Simon Welburn
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 02:34 PM

I went to this, Though James Taylor was advertise I do not remember him singing, a few seem to remember him so he must have. The Byrds were a late addition to the bill and performed last after Buffy. Rev 'Blind' Gary Davis did not do the gig at Bardney.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Andy Hiles
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:44 PM

So Sandy Denny was on the bill - I couldn't remember among so many acts. Everyone who was anyone was there. Can't remember how I got there or back from SouthLondon, but I do recall James Taylor saying it was cold on stage but not to send up any of the bonfires sprouting around the site. My goodness it was anarchic, but don't recall any aggro. The loos were indescribable - I had a sheltered life and soggy plywood over a chasm was life changing. Hardly any food vendors, and an announcement at one point that the organisers had asked the vendors to keep the prices down (cheers).
One of those special moments. Fantastic.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 09:12 PM

Found this programme on Facebook, it seems to be public. The caption with it reads: "The 1971 Lincoln Folk Festival at Tupholme Manor Park is fairly legendary - the running order from the programme should give some idea why. The Byrds were billed for an acoustic set which they did at sunset. The sun had just gone down when they came back electric for their encore and did an incredible extended Eight Miles High while campfires lit up all over the site…My enduring memories other than the great music and awful toilets are of mercifully being able to escape to the back stage area - where Tim Hardin was being dissuaded from trying to fly out of an upstairs window of the manor house, and of Tom Paxton making a grand entry in a white limo, with manager Joe Lustig, and a fur coated, mini-skirted "model" on either arm - to universal disinterest. "

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bill Geddes.
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 08:37 AM

I was 29 and was with a girl I met after my marriage broke down. We had a wonderful time! I remember the Byrds were billed as doing "an acoustic set" but when they came on they burst into "Do you wanna be a Rock n Roll Star" & they were electric, blew me away.I remember CSN being played over the PA, The canvas round the toilets falling down. We did not have a tent and at nightime it pissed down so we slept under a sheet of plastic. We are still together.......

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Apr 13 - 01:18 PM

glad to hear it, bill, hope you till sleep out occasionally under a sheet.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,gordon
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 05:19 PM

Dave,

two years later, yes i have a flyer. How do I send it to you?

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 05:56 PM

1971 TUPHOLME FOLK FESTIVAL

On a bright and sunny Saturday, 24th July 1971, Frederick Bannister Productions Ltd, staged a very successful concert of 'Contemporary and Traditional Folk Music', at Tupholme Manor Park.
Trains and coaches were overwhelmed with travellers attending this one-day festival. Hudson's Bus Company and Pilgrim Tours were operating a shuttle service from Lincoln station.
The crowd was estimated at 60,000, by Bill Hardy, the local farmer on whose land the event was held, with visitors from as far as Australia and New Zealand.
Tickets for the day were £2-00p.
The list of UK and American artists included:
Buffy Sainte Marie
Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy
Dion
Incredible String Band
James Taylor
Pentangle
Ralph McTell
Sandy Denny
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Steeleye Span
The Byrds
Tim Hardin
Tom Paxton (did not attend)
The Byrds, who arrived late, by surprise, were going to play an acoustic set, but because of the fantastic way they went down playing electric at the previous year's Bath Festival, they again stole the show by being the only band to play an electric set, on the day.
It was described as a very successful, trouble-free event.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Rob Oxberry
Date: 28 Sep 13 - 06:06 AM

Remember a great time with girlfriend Pat life was simple and fun I remember the dead tree and many people who couldn't find the way back to their friends and when it was over sleeping in a church hall good times

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 Sep 13 - 03:32 AM

They dont book them like that anymore.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,jah pensioner
Date: 05 Dec 13 - 04:17 PM

I was there too - as said by everybody, it was a great lineup. Tim Hardin was pretty good, with a very 'jazzy' sound, and an excellent ellectric pianist in his band. The Byrds were everything I hoped for, as was James Taylor and Dion, whose 'albums' I owned then.
I only ever went to 3 festivals in the UK, IOW, Hollywood [with the Dead & Mungo Jerry] and Lincoln - all were brilliant.....

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Rockinjan
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 07:06 AM

i bumped into Tim Hardin's manager who took me to the area behind the stage and introduced me to most of the musicians. I remember in particular saying hello to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and to Tim Hardin.
I was offered a ride back to London in their limo but wanted to here the Birds so was given a pass and sat under the stage to hear an acoustic set by the Birds!! one of the best days of my life!!
I still have a signed poster of the day

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 04 Jan 14 - 07:16 PM

Don't recall who I went with, how I got there (or back) - alls I remember is the wondrous James Taylor - his perfect music floating over the field - and the balmy warmth of that evening. I think we decided to make tracks after his set. I'd have surely had the Byrds etched in my brain. Thanks to all those reminiscensers who still have such vivid impressions of that wonderful day.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Deb
Date: 12 Jan 14 - 02:01 PM

That summer of 1971, the Canadian government arranged for summer jobs in foreign countries for university students - the only qualification was that you had to speak the language, so I applied for England and got a position as an office temp in London. In July some of my new friends were going to a music festival in Lincolnshire and one of the guys borrowed his grandmother's Mercedes and off we went - my memory is fuzzy after 42 years. I remember we had some trouble finding the place but eventually we did and enjoyed the show from a great distance. I remember most Ralph McTell, the Incredible String Band, and Sandy Denny alone on the stage with a piano. And people dancing round a bonfire, not far from the stage. I think we left before it was over and drove for a while before setting up a couple of pup tents in s field near the road. In the morning I heard the sound of a horse approaching and when I clambered out, there was a girl in the saddle, who politely asked if we wanted to come to the house for breakfast. At that time not that many rural Brits had much exposure to North Americans, and colonial accents were quite exotic so my friends made me do the talking. It was an ancient farm house with exposed beams and a family pleased to have caught some of the hippies from the concert. They joked I remember about not enough loaves and fishes in the village for the crowd. What a time! O to be 20 again...

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mick Gough
Date: 24 Jan 14 - 02:09 PM

I was working at the time as a Volunteer at Hothorpe Hall in Northamptonshire- an ecumenical conference centre. A Transit full of us went Warren and Ray from US, Maria from Sweden, Eeva and Laura from Finland, Harald originally from East Germany and then from Nottingham, Elizabeth, Harry and myself from England. At the time Walk On was popular with us so to see and hear Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee was brilliant. I can als remember James Taylor rebuking photographers saying somthing like "after the first one they're all the same, man" .

Anway great great day and a fabulous snog with Maria in a collapsed tent whilst Pentangle were on !

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 24 Jan 14 - 03:08 PM

I was there! Ralph McTell opened the show.
I too, was very impressed with Buffy Saint Marie.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,iriscot 53
Date: 28 Jan 14 - 04:52 AM

GREAT TO LEAVE A FEW MEMORIES OF THIS GREAT FESTIVAL THE BYRDS SET WAS BRILLIANT TAYLOR WAS MAGIC AND RALPH MCTELL SINGING THE STREETS OF LONDON WITH EVERYONE JOINING IN I WILL NEVER FORGET.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mike Winters
Date: 18 Mar 14 - 03:46 PM

Hitched from Southport with my girlfriend and ex-girlfriend (It was 1971 after all). Got to within a mile of the festival site when some guy in a min-van run into us on the road and knocked us all into a ditch. He took us into a building (probably Tupholme Manor Hall) and we were taken from there to Lincoln Hospital where I spent the night having X-Rays. Managed to get to the festival early next morning, fell asleep and was awoken by the sound check of an Alice Coltrane record (I think, Great day, great weather - loved the Byrds. Took all Sunday to get back home.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 30 May 14 - 01:39 AM

thats great -- just seen your message-- have you still got flyer if so i can give you my address dave

Subject: !!!!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 May 14 - 04:38 PM

It's time this thread disappeared for good....... I was YOUNG then.... in my twenties!!!! STOP IT!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,kev liverpool
Date: 02 Jun 14 - 05:51 PM

Just found this site. I was at this as a 15year old having hitched down from liverpool by myself. During the byrds and James Taylor I climbed up the scaffolding on the left of the stage to watch the music, ending up being closest to some of the greatest live music i`ve ever heard in my life. Enjoyed this festival immensely and hitch hiked back with a lovely girl who was a couple of years older than me. Was dropped off at kirkby by the driver who whisked her off into central liverpool. Would love to know if anyone has photos of the stage during those sets in case I can spot myself.