Just thought I'd add a note from a festival organiser (no boo-ing please)i.e. Saddleworth. Our festival is probably one of the cheapest anyway (£22 for weekend ticket)but as we receive no funding at all, we do have to be a bit careful. We don;t charge for under 10's, and then 10 - 16's are half price. On the other hand, we feel that to make folk music sustainable in the future, you've got to to draw young people in, and that means putting on events / activities for them.So the events cover all the age groups - young musicians, young poet of the year, song and rhythm (have I spelt that right?) workshop, session with Geoff Higginbottom etc.. When the festival had been running for a couple of years, we did have a debate in one of the meetings, that we were charging young people, but putting very little on for them, so hopefully we've put that right. In the programme we do remind parents that young people are their responsibility even if they leave them in a workshop, so hopefully the message gets across! On a personal note, if you've got a fairly large family i.e. 5 children, I think the organisers should come to some kind of agreement with you! Ali