Steve, I find it hard to see how scare-mongering is helping the festival, particularly at a time when people may well be making ticket-purchasing decisions for next year.

A substantial number of donations and pledges of support have been recieved. The overall outlook is currently very good, which is a rather different position than the one presented at the meeting a couple of weeks ago (which you did not attend, so you are not in a position to say what happened there). I'm not really at liberty to say any more at this point. I rather hope, if you really have the festival's best interests at heart, that you'll choose the same approach.


Joan Crump
Artistic Director
Sidmouth Folk Week