Hey what a surprise I got today up here in far flung Orkney when I went into a local music cafe in Kirkwall, there sitting on an inside table were a pile of cards advertising the 2007 Holmfirth Festival of Folk. Well you could have knocked me down with a tartan mackeral ...500 miles away from Holmfirth and there under me very nose a reminder of Yorkshire's success in the folk festival business. Up here folk music is a part of the pulse of life. For those of you soft southerners who don't know, the cafe is The Reel and run by the Wrigley Sisters - got it. Oh and they serve very good coffee and snap.
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