Just back from the Sidmouth folk festival and realise that at the beginning of the week I was singing quietly with the words on hand in case I forgot - by the end of the week I was confidently belting out the verses with no book - and the 'audience' was harmonising some really wonderful choruses. I never even noticed it was happening until it was over.

There should have been gloom and doom as it was 'the last Sidmouth' but everyone seemed confident that there would be something happening next year, organised or not.

I think that it is the normal state to sing in company, and silence and solitude are wrong for us.

Anne