'There certainly needs to be more youngsters encouraged to visit Whitby Week ! If not then I can't see the festival Progressing!'
Wow! Where were you on Friday night - or, for that matter any night? Down at the Spa we had crowds of young people playing and Speed Ploughing and Chain Clogging. As for the Hogwarts Express that toured the streets of Whitby on Thursday, there were no seats for the over thirties! The film of the Star and Shadow performance on Friday, and Chris Sexton's film of the final moments, show a demographic in which one is tempted to ask, 'Where are the adults?" I can also cite Sam and Dylan aka. 'Infinite Cherries' who, with a wide range of friends and others, have driven some beautiful evenings during the week, supplying music that was both refreshing and challenging to re-vitalise the Pavilion bar during the earlier parts of the evenings. Sorry, but the Whitby team have done loads to encourage the younger performers to come, take part and be prominent. The younger generation have embraced this invitation wholeheartedly. To suggest that this is not the case, not only denigrates their massive efforts but also misrepresents the actuality.