Got home yesterday & had a fabulous time, but am completey exhausted & need a holiday!

I just loved singing in the festival choir & felt very priviledged to be able to stand up on stage in the lunchtime concert on friday & sing my heart out with so many other great voices.

The songlinks was a superb concert, & thoroughly enjoyed the Waterson family concert, although I would really have liked to hear a little bit more of their younger members.

Agree about Kate Rusby. We were really disappointed that the sound levels on her mike were wrong, & we were nearly deafened by the imbalance on the sound, which was a real pity.

Loved hearing the wealth of new talent that was there, as Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson pointed out at the last night's concert, a few years ago there were relatively few young people coming into the folk world, but now there seem to be lots of them.

Sometimes we just wondered round the town, poking our heads into various venues just for the joy of hearing music & song & laughter everywhere.

A simply unforgetable festival.

Although we probably won't make Sidmouth a priority for next year's festival choice, we certainly hope that something will happen. It is always such a shame when any festival whether large or small dies, for whatever reason.