Glad you enjoyed the festival SingingRef (pity - we never actually got introduced though i must've seen you around?). Otley is indeed a friendly little spot and the festival team a reet good'un as they say in those parts!

My feeling (just recovering today!) was that the concerts were very strong and there were some tremendous performances - like Duncan McFarlane's two-hour-and-the-rest blinder of a set with his electric band at Korks on Sat till the wee small hours. Also sticking in the memory are the Voices concert at the Red Lion earlier on Sat evening, and Ashley Hutchings' Rainbow Chasers band on the Sunday, and Allan Taylor too, but shame i had to miss Karine P. And need I say it, the mighty El Greko conquered allcomers with his various appearances - we need to see more of him in these parts!
But, shame there were very few sessions/opportunities this year for "real" singing (as opposed to musicians, who had plenty) - by which I don't count the ad-hoc raucous smokebedevilled pub gatherings.

Generally though the buzz this year at Otley was great. See you around Ref.