Hi Jerry and folks,
I may have told you that we used to run a folk festival for 16 years, after we bowed out the new committee ran it for 3 years and then it faded away.
We have really missed the weekend of music so I thought we would try a "house concert" style at home with a guest. We had the first one this past weekend, a great sucess, the guest was an old friend The Amazing Mr Smith, he is incredibly funny and a very talented guitarist. He has done house concerts and concerts in the USA.
We invited 30 people who used to come to our festival, Billy did a lovely Bar b q supper and those who wanted alcohol brought their own.We had a marquee in the garden and erected a small stage with PA . After the performance we had a sing a round and we got to bed about 2 in the morning, it was so lovely to get old friends together and have decided to hold another evening in October. Hopefully we will do about 6 a year. We asked for donations to pay the guest and made a small profit to carry forward to the next one, so I am hoping that maybe by next summer we can hire a venue and maybe put on a one day festival.