Ely is quite nice (I have not been for two years but will go again this year). Range of performers, I'd like more hard core English traditional song, but I always say that. A small festival in which you can interact with the professionals, not many sings during the days, but the bar tent in the evening and after closing time can be magnificent (so long as no-one hides your capo.....) oh, and so long as you don't drink two bottles of Chateau-neuf du Pape.... - or PINTS of Kenny Cramp's Double Vision.....

Where else can you amiably get called an animal by Ian Bruce for drinking a can of Red Stripe at 8 am?