To get back to the music!
I went down to the Open Mic session at Number 11 last night and the range and quality of musicianship is just amazing. I left after 11.30 and they still hadn't managed to give everyone their allotted 2/3 numbers as there were so many performers.
They are a venue during the festival and will have Jamie Smith and Ray Moore as guests on Friday and Kate Bramley and Craig Morgan Robson on Saturday night. James Cannon is running a young person's Open Mic on Saturday afternoon and that will be a brilliant session if last night's 'young people' are anything to go by.
Anybody who suggests that live music is in decline and young people aren't coming forward needs to call in here and they will learn differently!