My vote's on Dartmoor Festival, at South Zeal in Okehampton, Devon, the most fantastic, friendly, folk frisson of the year.

it's small, its intimate, but crammed. Muscians and festival-goers spill onto the streets. There's a huge marquee on a sort of village green and hundreds of people go there to do the concerts & ceilidhs. The singarounds are second to none, and the Oxenham Arms and the Kings Arms, are lovely pubs with just the right atmosphere. even the campsite... Last year a party from our folk club, The Hyde visited and it was heartwarming to see groups of our friends coming down the village street. Everybody say aaah.

Of couse, this year it did rain a bit...

Deni

Hyde Folk Club http://www.beehive.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/hydefolk