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Thread #68921   Message #1312086
Posted By: GUEST,LLincoln Folk Festival
31-Oct-04 - 08:19 AM
Thread Name: What makes a great festival?
Subject: RE: What makes a great festival?
Hi there this is Andy Watkins the organiser. Yes publicity is a weakie for us not helped always by our City - they don,t allow us to put up direction signs but we do a nice little map with our publicity. This year 30 April 2005 we're incorporating a Lincolnshire Folk Musician of the year competition (£250 in prize money plus performing in our concert season and on Radio Lincoln) Not just about competition but establishing various formal/informal network links for aspiring folk musicians in our geographically challenged county. Artists now booked for workshops and our evening concert are Boden and Spiers, Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman and Kerfuffle a super young band formed due to a similar initiative in our neighbouring county of Derbyshire. It is early in the year re camping so we offer only the facility of the City camping park. However we are very central in the medieval part of Lincoln and surrounded by good and cheap bed and breakfasts. This means our beautiful cathedral and ancient castle are two minutes walk away from the Festival. Look its just not easy in Lincolnshire because of the distances people have to come but we are now in our thirty-second year as a festival and our eighth year as a concert season - Eileen McGann tonight in fact only six in the audience so far as Lincolnshire folks haven't heard of her whereas seventy for last concert (october) for John Kirkpatrick who they do know and love. We're also very cheap - check our website on http://lincolnfolk.port5.com/ email us on lincolnfolk@yahoo.co.uk thanks for listening