A poster once described my Pedantry as Legendary: so allow me, as another old enough to remember most of the book's incidents, to question the author's recollections on one important matter:--

The first prize at the competition at the first Cambridge Folk Festival, 1965, was not won, as he asserts, by Derek Brimstone, who took second prize; due partly perhaps to his having forgotten his capo and so being compelled, as he put it, to sing down in his boots. You'd have thought someone would have come forward with the offer of the loan of a capo, but nobody did.

First prize IIRC went to a young English concertina player from Bury, whose name I do not recall, but I remember sang, inter alia, The Leaving Of Liverpool -- not so very familiar a song then as it subsequently became: nor, indeed, the concertina so familiar an instrument.

The first 'group' prize went to The Strawberry Hill Boys, later the Strawbs.

~M~