The Brinklow Folk Weekend versus the PRS is hot news round these parts... Here is a cutting from the press release of the "Festival Formally Known As The Brinklow Folk Weekend":


The show goes on, despite enforced closure of the Brinklow Folk Weekend

The famous Warwickshire village for folk music, Brinklow will be celebrating three days of music and song this summer, despite the enforced closure of its annual Folk Weekend.

The two main venues for the Folk Weekend – the Royal British Legion on Heath Lane and the White Lion on Broad Street – have both decided to open their doors to folk entertainment this year, Friday to Sunday 9-11 July.

This is in spite of the decision by the Brinklow Folk Weekend committee not to stage an event this year because the charging regime imposed by the Performing Right Society no longer made the event economically viable.

Says committee member and local folksinger, Lesley Celic: 'It was with great sadness that we decided no longer to run the Folk Weekend. This was forced on us when the PRS charged us more for royalties than we actually made on ticket sales for some of last year's concerts.

'But the Legion and the Lion have announced that they still want to play host to folk music this summer so they will both be staging their own weekend of events under their own music licences.'

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