Are you really wanting the formality of festivals, Naemanson, or are you looking for like-minded people to stay with and take you to local clubs/sessions/events?
I live in Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire), near the centre of England, and normally would be very pleased to offer you a bed myself, and would be pleased to show you local clubs, music sessions, singarounds, morris dancing and mummers etc, perhaps with a bit of Shakespeare in between. However, August is an up-up-and-away month for me! You might just catch me in for a few days in between festivals. This year it is:-
* Fri 30 July - Sat 7 Aug Sidmouth International Festival (Devon),
* Fri 13 - Sun 15 Aug Saltburn Folk Festival (North Yorkshire),
* Fri 20 - Sat 28 Aug Whitby Folk Week (North Yorkshire),
* Sat 28 - Mon 30 Aug Towersey Village Festival (Oxfordshire), and
* Fri 3 - Sun 5 Sept Wareham Wail Song & Ale (Dorset),
* Mon 6 Sept Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers (Staffordshire),
* Fri 10 - Sun 12 Sept Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival (Norfolk),
* with visiting friends in Wales, Suffolk & Yorkshire in between.
Obvious I could recommend any of those festivals and you would certainly meet many Mudcatter at all of them. By Spring 2005 it should be clearer what the position will be next year ... Keep in touch as your plans start to materialise and enjoy!
"... summer is a coming, its time to make hay!"
Alan