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egad! Ok, so it's not somewhere in the UK, but this is a FANTASTIC festival. I could show ya pictures of Art Theime and John Roberts, Peter Bellamy, Anne Hills, Peggy Seeger and DOZENS AND DOZENS of other folk luminaries who've performed at this festival over the years.

I'm not the only soul traveling from states away just to volunteer (and ok... I'm playing with Old Fezziwig's Band on Sunday, but I've been volunteering for 24 years before that) BUT this is likely THE best folkfestival of the summer of 2010 in the Midwest of the US. The combinations of people have been consistently amazing. I don't know what this year's "just amazing" workshop will be, but as an example I remember one in "British Music Hall Songs" that included Heather Wood (in a Valkyrie horned hat), John Roberts, & David Jones that had people on the ground. Months later, at a house concert, Claudia Schmidt was talking about what a good time that workshop was before presenting a poem it had inspired.

Don't say I didn't tell ya it would be great after you've missed it!
Joanne in Cleveland packing for Illinois