The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13337   Message #4196212
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
26-Jan-24 - 08:18 PM
Thread Name: Whatever happened to Matt McGinn? (1928-1977)
Subject: RE: Whatever happened to Matt McGinn? (1928-1977)
Hi David, very sad and sorry to say that there will not be a Linlithgow Matt McGinn night this year, or in the foreseeable future. Unfortunately the Linlithgow Folk Festival Association has run out of people willing to keep the whole thing going, including that and the annual festival in September. They had their AGM, followed by an EGM just last week at which the existing committee all stood down, but there were no nominees or volunteers to take the association forward, so all activities have been suspended. Having spent a good few years on the committee myself, several of those as festival coordinator, I am bereft: sadly it’s the fate of many organisations, not just within folk music, that people are very happy to join in what’s put before them, but not so keen to help organise things…. But LFFA has not yet been formally dissolved, so if there’s anyone out there who feels up to taking it on…..?