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Wyrestew Hull shanty festival 2002------ comments (28) RE: Hull shanty festival------ comments 04 Sep 02


Unfortunately those of us attending with children did not have such a good time. Indeed my family were subject to probably the most crass behavior I have ever experienced in a 25 year association with folk clubs and festivals. Having eventually found a venue that would allow children in on the Friday night, upstairs in the Black Boy in High Street, and with the room filling up nicely, we in the company of another faimily were settling down to enjoy a good session. The Landlord had been asked and was OK with our presence but of a sudden we were told, and not nicely so, to leave. Investigations the next day revealed that a member of the Hull Folk Club, I beleive her name to be Maggie, who were the organisers of the event, had asked the bar staff to remove the children, not because they were being noisy or misbehaving, merely that she wanted the seats we occupied "for her regulars". Perhaps if the young lady were ever to visit the West Midlands we could give her a few lessons in how to treat visitors to our Folk Clubs and Cities. It is a shame that recolections of events like these stay in the memory longer and spoil what otherwise was a good festival.




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