You're not going to enjoy everything at a festival. Sometimes you think you won't enjoy anthing, but you get surprised. Sometimes your favourite artist turns in a crap performance. They're all only human.

You've just got to take them for what they are, and most of the time, they're okay. Usually the company is good, the organisers are considerate and pleasant and quite efficient. Often you see new and interesting ways of playing.

These are the modest expectations that sre usually fulfilled, and sometimes exceeded in periods of nice weather.

Unless an artist arises - young and charismatic with mass popular appeal, like Bob Dylan did and gives the whole thing a kick up the arse, I think the folk festival phenomena will plod along and burn itself out sometime this century - as the 60's generation peg out.