Midnight oil burned . . .

TVS broadcast a half hour documentary about the 1988 Bracknell Folk Festival, filmed at South Hill Park. I've digitised an off-air VHS. I think it nicely captures the atmosphere of the event with lots of audience participation plus artists like June Tabor & Maddy Prior as The Silly Sisters, Leon Rosselson & Roy Bailey, the Davy Spillane Band from Ireland, Marta Sebestyen & Muzsikas from Hungary, kora masters Dembo Konte & Kausu Kuyateh from Gambia/Senegal, morris and clog dancers, workshops, singers in the cellar bar and all sorts.

Locals and regulars will spot lots of yourselves!

I.i.r.c. this was my second year as festival director. Good though this little film is, unfortunately the production company only had the budget to film one day, so they missed lots of other great artists I had on that year's bill including the Copper Family, Blowzabella, Najma Akhtar, Andrew Cronshaw, Peter Bellamy, John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris, Danny Thompson, Dave Burland, Bill Caddick, Taxi Pata Pata, Wizz Jones, Hassan Erraji, Andy White and loads more. Such is life.        

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