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Thread #143453 Message #3317929
Posted By: GUEST,Folknacious
05-Mar-12 - 07:57 PM
Thread Name: Frome Folk festival
Subject: RE: Frome Folk festival
For what it's worth, some friends of mine went and had a good time, their email reported that it was pretty full in the main venues, the concerts were good, they liked that "it wasn't overloaded with the usual big names, giving us a chance to enjoy people like Jamie Smith's Mabon, Jackie Oates, Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin and Tim Edey & Brendan Power" and they also "particularly enjoyed the Spiers & Boden ceilidh." They ventured out to a few pub sessions but said it was mostly local floor singers - their comment was "it was good of the organisers to involve so many locals, and particularly good to put them where we could avoid them" (!!)They liked the "big market hall" and "an old cinema" as venues, their only real adverse comments were about the in-venue catering and the morris sides ("uniformly dreadful").