This is my take on it.
For three nights accommodation in rooms as good as most Spanish hotels and better than some, food that I could find no fault with terms of dining area, selection and standard for three nights, and superb staff it was unbeatable value.

I now know that the music and festival organisation is done by others and that is where the problems as such arise.

The guest list can't be beaten in terms of breadth and quality. Some of the lesser acts were of questionable value. The big question mark comes when we touch sound and organisation.

From the top this was my weekend.
Female MC - would have suited a R1 roadshow. Folk?? Too many yees and how's.
Jim Moray - unenviable task of opening the whole affair. Did well considering but no one listening in my area, all too excited meeting & greeting plus filling up with beer.
Barbara Dickson - fantastic. Sound was good but trouble with her guitar line presaged later problems. They positioned a vocal Mike but didn't turn it on.
Arab - I can only relate what I was told but it was a disaster with the sound crew unable to master the basics.
Bailey Tzuke - excellent musicians from her mothers band. Nice singer but not folk and little stagecraft.
Judie Tzuke - very good, crowd really took to her. Despite the next act not coming on for an hour and no activity on stage for over 20 minutes they refused her an encore.
Karak - who the hell booked them. The open Mike had better music

It was now apparent there were no sound checks as such, just line checks.

Annie Winter - headline act in an essentialy acoustic venue. Problems setting up sound. 30 minutes late start. Strangulated phony American accent. Awful.
Bruce & Jamie Watson (big Country). Mmmm.....
Take 3 - absolutely fantastic. What a guitarist. Gerry Conway has trained a woodpecker to tap in time to the music. Sound OK.
Allan Yn Y Fan - only caught a few, brilliant. Crowd vocal but no encore.
Cara Dillon - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Sound sometimes iffy.
Springfields - forgotten words, missed harmonies. Total disaster and shouldn't have been there.

Gary Fletcher & Tom Leary - brilliant. No encore. An hour before Faiport. Sound OK but a couple of mega clicks.
Fairport - I now know they weren't happy at being refused a full sound check in the morning. Just the line checks. I also now know that there own sound man had taken over. Sound spot on. Fairport superb. Chris Leslie on Cell Song produced the stand out song of the weekend for me. Two spots but missed the second to watch Steeleye. Told they were even better in the second half.
Steeleye - I've seen every. Lineup of Steeleye since they were formed. Bear in mind this is their 6th decade. The sound was so bad in the Dark Mummer, bass and drums that it made my wife feel ill. Maddy's voice was more of a squawk. I've listened to the CD since, no comparison. Shamed to say it but I left early. Sound man should gave been executed.
Common Tongues - not my stuff but they were very good. The crowd loved them. I presume there were some sound problems as they did there last number in front of the mikes. Brave in a 4000 seat vast room. No encore.
Reg Meuross - absolutely fantastic. I can't fully describe his mastery of the audience, his song quality and delivery. THE act of the weekend for me. Not seen him live before. Sound good, but too much reverb. I now realise and know that this was a common fault throughout the weekend.
Richard Digance - for at least an hour the funniest folksinger in England. I didn't realise how good a guitarist he was. His songs were brilliant. As for the Animal Song! If you weren't there hard luck, you'll never know what you missed. Someone queried his credentials for being at a folk festival? Poor fool.
St Agnes Fountain - good but sound verged on the painful. So much so that we regretfully baled out.
I also understand that a large number of the PA speakers in both venues are shot. OK for disco but not for folk.

Hopefully if this filters through to the artists they'll all arrive next with a harder face and line on sound checks. A bunch of competent sound men would help.

Did I have a good time - already booked for next year. Can't be beat.