My thoughts exactly Lynne! Why do people think that this forum is a sort of 'remote' FAQ section of the Sidmouth Folk Week website?

As I have said before - if people have questions to ask of the organisers, ask them! But please understand that they are probably very busy organising the Festival.

I've never been to Sidmouth myself - but I suspect that this year would be much more to my taste than the Sidmouth I've heard of in previous years, which sounded too big for me - personal taste only. I doubt I'll get to 2005 because too many other calls on my megre allowance of time off in this bicentenary of Trafalgar year - hope to get there someday, though, so wish all well in all endeavours.