Yes, it's VERY worthwhile Joe. Go to the focus day on the Friday too - loads of good advice about marketing etc, and really useful networking. The AFO is probably one of the main reasons so many festivals are blooming at the moment. I'll bet you that pint I owe you that it'll be the making of Queensbury (though you've booked some superb acts, so you're half way there!)

YOu get advice on everything from ticket policy, stewarding, road closures, bottled water supplies, tents, contracts, PA,s printing, MCs, morris sides and promotion, to where to find those essential guys who sell dragons eggs and mushrooms made out of old tree trunks.

I'll be there, wearing my folkWISE hat (new website coming soon, and those are not the current directors btw).

Tom