You never will please all of the people all of the time. You'll always find some gripers.

A very well done to all the organisers. This is and has been, my favourite folk festival in the UK, for the past 20 years and Scarborough has no chance of trying to snatch it!

I might be missing something here; but surely an initial summary and synopsis of what a festival has to offer; with a list of artists booked and details of workshops and morris teams attending and camping and accomodation details etc etc on a website, should suffice well enough to whet anyones appetite and enable them to make a decision on whether to attend a festival or not and then to send off for the programme for the full details if they are really interested.

Why should you possibly need a full programme and schedule detailing every single event, hour by hour and day by day at such a huge week-long festival, posted on the website? Surely advance ordering of programmes and sales during the festival are an essential income generator for that festival. So why should organisers shoot themselves in their income-generating foot by allowing freeloaders to download and print off every single detail on line for nowt?

Is £4.00 for a programme (+ sae) really too much to fork out?

On the subject of the location of the official festival office, however, this really must be made ever so clear on the web site.

Jack Campin! Your comments are becoming more and more offensive here. Tut tut! Calm down boy!