Can The Holmfirth festival of Folk Committee form a sub-group ( like the one dedicated to organising the dance sides ) to organise venues where informal/fringe singarounds and musicians sessions will be welcome.

You do't need too many - infact three good accomodating venues with the right sort of session rooms and ambient atmosphere will probably be enough. These nominated venues should be clearly known and recommended to festival goers before the festival.

This prevents the all too common scene at festivals where you see droves of minstrels and singers aimlessly wandering the streets looking for the seat of happening - where it's all going on.
But the trouble is there is often too much wandering and not enough happening. Like ships in the night passing each other and never meeting up at the port!

"The Nook" is the obvious main venue ( so long as there will be no amplified groups inside the pub itself!) and other nominated/recommended venues should also be willing to put their hands in their pockets and sponsor the Festival, in return for all the extra revenue they will make from the folkies coming through their doors and spending full sessions there.

I see from the Festival flyer that Ray Pagett, a regular contributor to this thread,is listed with all the artists. Does this mean that Ray is doing a solo spot in the programme or is he M.C'ing some Singarounds or both? Either way that's good news.

And finally, sorry to ramble on , but will some musician sessions and singarounds be organised on a formal basis and appear in some form of festival programe scheduled to occur at set venues and times ?

Because other events are listed in the flyer like folk Clubs and workshops etc I am presuming that there will be an official festival Programe. I don't think this has been mentioned before so can someone please confirm. Many thanks.