Am I getting paranoid or losing my marbles or what?
I can't believe that there has NOT been an almighty roar of complaint and dissent about the feature "Folk festival '07 set to move to Shepley" in Wed nights Huddersfield Examiner.

Wake up people! - This is an outright case of mischief and sabotage by a Mr John Taylor which is fully intended to plant misinformation and confusion in readers minds and harm this years Holmfirth Festival of Folk. A festival that many people on this thread have worked their socks off for many months now.

Please note! In this feature it says "The Holmfirth Folk Festival could be on the move...to Shepley!....The long-running festival is taking a break this year but is hoping to be back in 12 months time. Mr taylor said "They're not holding it this year while they reorganise themselves and then the plan is they will come to Shepley next year. They were finding it difficult to find suitable places to have as a campsite and for events because there weren't enough sites available"

For a start MANY readers reading this who are NOT aware of the change this year from Holmfirth Folk Festival to Holmfirth Festival of Folk will not make the connection and will naturally assume that
the whole event is off this year. They will tell other people and those people will tell other people and so on and so on and so forth.
Bad news always travels 10 times faster than good news so word spreads very quickly!

MANY readers will also have not bothered to read the whole article and will have missed the wee bit at the end that says "Volunteers in Holmfirth are holding a three-day folk extravaganza as a replacement next month while the original festival takes a year off."

This does not mention Holmfirth Festival of Folk, the dates of the Festival, just how big this years festival has become and how it compares just as equally with "the original festival". It also refers to a "folk extravaganza". This term has never been used in any P.R for this years festival and again is used to divert and distract and confuse the reader so they haven't a clue what is actually going on.

The reference to "volunteers in Holmfirth" is fully intended to downsize this years event in the mind of the reader and make it appear to be a small-fry event that will have no comparison at all to previous events.

I nearly rest my case, but if you can now see how this article could have caused severe damage to our cause it will have been worth the effort.
It's now DAMAGE LIMITATION TIME!!
Their broadside has caught us in the bows and it could sink us (but I doubt it)
But we do now need to repel this with P.R in The Huddersfield Examiner and all the local papers to put the story straight.
Cath, this is your mission,should you wish to accept it!

As a footnote: The Holmfirth Folk Festival is suggested to be held in Shepley next year ".... because there are plenty of fields away from the main centre of population....venues under consideration so far are two marquees in local fields...." (quotes from The same Hudds Examiner article).

What? Are they really serious? Can they really be serious?
They are having a laugh surely! I've just had a fit of laughing....sorry!
The Holmfirth Folk Festival in Shelley? The Shelley Folk Festival?
The Holmfirth and Shelley Folk Festival? ..and where the hell is shelley?

I think the festival is in your safe hands next year folks.
And long may you reign.