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Thread #74059   Message #1299578
Posted By: Strollin' Johnny
18-Oct-04 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: Gainsborough Folk Festival
Subject: RE: Gainsborough Folk Festival
Still alive, if bruised, battered and exhausted!
A fantastic weekend all round. Wonderful contributions (some way above and beyond the call of duty) from the vast majority of the artists, a fine crowd of listeners and sing-arounders, and a small but perfectly formed group of organisers/helpers who sometimes moved not only Heaven, but Earth too, in order to keep everything running smoothly and on time.

Thanks to Sooz and Mr. Sooz for their hard work - their computer's worn to a frazzle with e-mailing, producing leaflets, flyers, programmes etc., and Mr. Sooz's new super-duper camera earned it's expensive price-ticket big-style! :0)

High-spots for me were the brilliant and incredibly hard-working Skatz and his pal (who played non-stop for an hour and forty minutes when the next artists couldn't be bothered to organise themselves to turn up on time), 'Sensible Shoes' who drove me insensible with their stunning, soaring harmonies and dry wit, Julie Ellison who is the finest female guitarist in Britain if not the world, a great singer and a lovely lady, and everyone who played in the main concert on Sunday - Cara, Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher and the great man, John Connolly. Huge talents of which we Yellowbellies are rightly very very proud.