One point about the session that hasn't been made is the location. It was actually in a corner of a marquee just in front of the stage, and unless a singer had a voice of Brian Blessed proportions it was hard to project outside the circle, the bar being in close proximity, whereas the fiddles etc were able to do this, and quiet singers did not really have much of a chance. This was not any fault of the instrumental musicians.

Sometimes a good "Heinz 57" session will attract an audience of punters -the famous sessions in the Bedford at Sidmouth being a classic example - it was difficult for quiet singers to project to do this.

Acoustics are very odd sometimes very strange - a group of Leicester musicians regularly do a charity busk at a shopping centre in a bandstand, and the sound projects really well because of the roof - a tent is probably the worst possible venue acoustically.

The Festival is only young and the orgainiers overall did a great job -perhaps if they note the problems that occurred on the feedback forms, something will be sorted for next year.