It was indeed a great week and tributes all round to those who made it happen.
Agnes, I didn't see a single Aran sweater(one n please!) about, even if the occasional Clancy bros song slipped in. (Arran is a Scottish island, Aran (of the sweaters)off the coast of Ireland.)
Dan, Elenor and the manuscript paper: Dan's promised to come back with "Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife" by next year - a lovely tune - must be the only one he doesn't know!
John B - thanks for the Bedford songs, and really enjoying your CD.
Gems of the week: the Demon Barbers and Bellowhead concert, and "This Farming Life" with Tom and Barbara Brown: the latter was the only event I could persuade my non-folkie husband to come to, and he loved it!
Personal goal achieved: playing in the Festival band with the great JK conducting/playing/arranging.
MBS were brill as usual - "the Power of Song"
Trish