Yes Charlie, many survivors. It was a lovely festival. The new place was just dandy, with the exception of the (?) rule allowing only as many people in to a workshop hall/room as there were chairs, no standing thought there was room for plenty more chairs at times, I'm sure there was a good reason. And the food choices were narrow compared to the past, so what! Otherwise there was some tought callings between which workshops to attend there was plenty of good ones to choose from, actually there were to many good performers & not enough time but there was plenty of space. I think there was enough for anyones' taste, there certinally was for me. Weather wise it was one of the best that I can remember. Though I couldn't do Friday night & missed some good folks, Saturday & Sunday made up for that. I'm not gonna give a running list of how whoever's workshops were cause I missed to many good ones & it'd be unfair to leave them out cause I couldn't be in 3 or 4 places at once, 2 places at the same time I can manage. I will say that I left with the taste of the last 2 workshops in my head. Jeff Davis had Brian Peters with him & had Erwin Bennet & Dave Ruch (who's guite a nice guy & player-sorry to have missed his Fri eve "Trad songs of NY" , heard it was great)sitting in with him & then followed by Brian Peters who had Jeff Davis with him, hell of a combo. Also it was nice to see old & new friends some who I haven't seen in many, many years (hi Ian), some mudcatters & some mudcatter lurkers who I han't known about. So, anyway after Jeff & Brian I went home after that well feasted on music & song, quite delighted with the whole short weekend.

Not being a dancer, I'll leave that to others.

Barry