Music: Which festivals this year for you

Subject: Music: Which UK festivals this year for you
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 04:23 AM

Will I be meeting any of you this season?

If you are a mudcat Cafe member, let me know.... There will be discount.

Here's a list of where I'll be this summer

Sal

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🍋lemonade 2015🍋

1-4th May : Upton folk festival ✔️
22-25th May : Chippenham Folk Festival ✔️
12-14th June : Leamington Peace festival ✔️
26-28th June : Shobdon food and flying festival ✔️
3-5th July : Bromyard Gala ✔️
10-12th July : Tewkesbury Battle ✔️
17-19th July : Upton Blues festival ✔️
23-27th July : Trowbridge Village Pump Festival ✔️
31 July - 7th August :
Sidmouth Folk Festival week-Kennaway House Gardens ✔️
7-9th August : Dartmoor Folk festival ✔️
14-16th August : Thurleigh folk festival
         (also with Mice in a Matchbox) ✔️
28-31st August : Towersey folk festival ✔️
4-6th September : Wallingford Bunk Fest ❓
18-20th September : Abergavenny food festival ✔️

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Hamish
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 11:27 AM

You can fit in all those festivals with your maritime exploits??? Bude and Towersey is all I have as definites so far: so I'll pop in to see you at Towersey x

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,guest Betsy
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 07:17 PM

Your Thread should have read "SOUTHERN" festivals.....

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Noreen
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 08:55 PM

Why, picky guest Betsy?
It's a list of the festivals Sally's going to be at.

She'll have put UK so our American cousins don't drop in hoping for lovely freshly squeezed lemonade over the pond to no avail.

Don't think there's a need to narrow it down any further.
You can always start your own thread for festivals you're attending, and call it what you like :)

See you at Upton and Chippers, Sal- with brilliant suinshine! :@)

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Apr 15 - 11:06 PM

I will be at Sidmouth for the week Sal ! Isnt it time you came into The Newt for a sing ? AND I'll buy you a drink unless you stay a while and I'll put you on the singers drinks list !!

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Apr 15 - 12:13 PM

"Your Thread should have read "SOUTHERN" festivals....."

Everyone's south of the North Pole.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 22 Apr 15 - 03:29 PM

See you at Chippers, Sal!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 02:31 AM

Opened this thread to see where people would be, expecting a wide demographic. All I got was a advert for a lemonade concession and southern folk festivals.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 03:06 AM

http://fastnetmaritime.com/ Saltburn folk festival,
http://www.cuttywrenfolkclub.talktalk.net/SaltburnFF/index.htm Whitby sea festival,http://www.whitbyseafest.co.uk/index.htm Tenterden Folk Festivalhttp://tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk/

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 03:15 AM

Maybe we should have another thread that's actually about who's doing what this year.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 04:19 AM

Par for the current Mudcat trend ! 20% of posts after a perfectly reasonable first are Guests sniping at the Original Poster !

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 12:47 PM

well said,Terry

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: BobKnight
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 05:32 PM

I won't be at any festivals this year - not been booked.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 08:51 PM

Ok, I'll give you my (mainly) Scottish list for the year. (And I'm not booked to play, I just go for the enjoyment).

Edinburgh - tomorrow and Saturday - Northern Streams. Music from Scandinavia and Scotland.
Next weekend - Girvan Folk Festival
May 15 - 17 Fifesing Traditional Singing Weekend
June 26 - 28 - Falkland Traditional Music Festival
July 9 - 12 - Stonehaven Folk Festival
July 26 - 28 - Cullerlie Traditional Singing Weekend
July 31 - August 7 - Sidmouth Folk Week
Aug 21 - 23 - Innerleithen Music Festival dovetailing into
Aug 24 - 28 - Whitby Folk Festival ( a first for me)
Sept 9 - 13 - Linlithgow Folk Festival
Nov 6 - 8 - Button Boxes and Moothies weekend in Aberdeen

Plenty others up here that I've missed plus some one-day events and concerts, including Edinburgh Festival Fringe which has a lot of folk events. And I'll be playing a few ceilidhs as well.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: r.padgett
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 01:05 PM

These are near to me and some I will go to!

Wath Upon Dearne, Holmfirth fest of folk, Shepley, Cleckheaton

Saltburn (hosting the Fred Jordan Memorial competition for unaccompanied singers once again)and no doubt meeting up with Betsy (Pete Betts)

Warwick ff if asked again (same w/ed as Kate Rusby's "Under the Stars",) and Saddleworth ff if Ali O'Brien needs me! lol

Ray

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,Vin2
Date: 25 Apr 15 - 11:26 AM

I'll be at......

Cleckheaton 3rd, 4th & 5th July

Saddleworth folk week-end 18 & 19th July

Fairport Cropredy Festival 13th, 14t & 15th August

Hope to see you there. I'll wear my very ageing mudcat t-shirt

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Stanron
Date: 25 Apr 15 - 08:51 PM

Chester                        22,23,24,25 May
Wirral                        4,5,6,7 June
Cleckheaton                3, 4, 5, July
Saddleworth                17, 18, 19 July
Moira Furnace                14 to 16 August
Fylde                        4, 5, 6 September

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: r.padgett
Date: 26 Apr 15 - 03:16 PM

Holmfirth fest, Cleckheaton, Warwick, Saltburn, Whitby week now confirmed

Ray

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 27 Apr 15 - 03:41 AM

Tatie - what a marathon!
Having been to festivals booked and not booked, I think I prefer the latter. No programme to construct, no PA to worry about, no sound checks, no time constraints. There are easier ways to earn money.

I know it would be difficult to run a festival if everybody thought the same - but

Maybe this should be a separate thread. To be booked or not to be booked?

FloraG.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 27 Apr 15 - 10:23 PM

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 27 Apr 15 - 10:26 PM

Bob Knight

If you only go to festivals you are booked at why even respond to this thread.

Mind you Ray Padgett is almost as bad - do you really mean Ray you would not be at Whitby if you were not doing something?

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Apr 15 - 08:01 PM

Oh, and we've just started Tradfest here in Edinburgh. Got tx for Vasen, and for Mary Black on her final tour before retiring.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: r.padgett
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 11:15 AM

Been going to Whitby 45 years and ran with John Booker and Jude Knight and all the lovely singers, the fringe singarounds in the Cutty/Tap and Spile/Station for very many years ~still like a sing/play at Whitby wherever I can but running the Con club some nights (the Wffest folk club) and compering odd concerts keeps me up to date with the "young thrusters"

Ray

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 11:17 AM

We're always happy to go to Fests, even if I'm not booked *grin* I've now resigned from my day job so we may start heading further North! Here's this year's current list:

Upton (running Singaround)
Possibly Tredegar
Kingston Beer Festival
Dorking Beer Festival
Birch Hill (booked)
Bewl Water or Wimborne, not sure yet
Boars Bridge (Booked)
Possibly West Somerset
Travelling Folk Song & Ale
Possibly Ely
Local Private Fest
Possibly Trowbridge
Possibly Sidmouth
Lechlade Song & Ale
Thurfolk
Wallingford Bunkfest
Possibly Swanage
W*********y Song & Ale
Probably Tenterden
Banbury
Probably Bampton After the Fair
Bedworth (Booked)
Hopefully Skegness
Straw Bear 2016

And onwards, isn't life fun!

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: RealOregonWoman
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 12:14 PM

So far this thread seems to be only folk festivals, but my range of appreciation is broader than that. This year I hope to attend two local events (Portland, OR, US). The upcoming week of July 4th is the Annual [sponsor's name blank} Waterfront Blues Festival - always a mixed bag but chock full of goodies that add Zydeco, Gospel and other variations to the blues theme.

Then a half year later, in late winter, is the Old Timey Music Festival. This year was my first attendance but it was so terrific that I plan to become a regular. And the name might be a bit misleading because in addition to hearing modern musicians doing their interpretations of old songs, there are also performances of location specific traditional music by people who grew up hearing the music as well as becoming players themselves, learning from their elders.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 09:18 PM

Knockholt and Piggy pretty sure - Cleckheaton IF I don't get a Gig that weekend , Sidmouth for definite (with Gerry at The Newt) and Grove (W H F F) . Other than that , not a lot else at the moment . Still (as Always) open to offers that won't bankrupt me !

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: mg
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 09:46 PM

Folklife usa seattle in may, small town festival.in labor day, still planning mystic. Camp alexandra in sepy or so.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 09:50 PM

Well, this is starting to look like a collapsed summer from Knockers (the summer solstice) to Whitby!

Sandwich appears to have morris dancing, concerts, and diddly - but no song sessions.

There don't appear to be any song sessions at Bewl Toe in the Water

A lovely private party has had to reschedule

I cannot establish that the Medway Hopper Fest is running at all this year

Sidders requires the planning of a military expedition and the dedication of a whole week (maybe next year!)

It's SUCH a mish finding a decent song session at Broadstairs and camping is hard sensibly to arrange.

Deal is dead.

WTF to do in the South of England?

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: WindhoverWeaver
Date: 30 Apr 15 - 04:25 AM

Looks like we'll be doing our usual round plus a couple of new (to us) ones this year:

Folk Camps Dancing Weekend May 29-31
Lichfield Dance Weekend June 19-21
Ely July 10-12 (new)
Moira Furnace August 14-16
Bo Peep Cider Festival September 11-13 (new)
Banbury October 9-11 (possibly just me)
Oxjam, Bury St Edmunds October 24-25
Bedworth November 27-29

David

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Apr 15 - 05:20 AM

Richard - Rural Oxfordshire is in the South of England - http://www.whitehorsefolkfestival.co.uk/index.html is worth a look

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Apr 15 - 06:19 AM

see you in Sidmouth, lemonade lady, and hopefully leadfingers, morticia, micca, dave earl, and of course Jenny and Rob Williams!

freda

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 30 Apr 15 - 10:03 AM

For those of us in the poor ol' USA, anything interesting going on the first 2 weeks of June? I actually get a break between quarters this time...

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 Apr 15 - 04:07 PM

Thank you Terry, Windover sounds lovely, and only about 120 miles away. Time to check the deets!

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 15 - 02:46 AM

Cleckheaton - cause it's the best !!!!
Shepley -cause its the nearest
Grove(White Horse) -cause we love the people
Www.cleckheatonfolkfestival.org

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 13 May 15 - 06:42 PM

Girvan was great, as ever! Fifesing this coming weekend in the historic village of Falkland.

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Dave Earl
Date: 13 May 15 - 08:41 PM

Yippee Freda ( or should I use the other name i know you by?)
You are going to make it to Sidders? Great news!!
Will definitely see you there and any other scatters that will be there
Dave

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 13 May 15 - 09:06 PM

Meeeeeeee!

Subject: RE: Music: Which festivals this year for you
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 May 15 - 05:26 AM

http://fastnetmaritime.com/