Burnham on Sea Folkfest

Subject: Burnham on Sea FREE Folkfest
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Aug 07 - 09:38 PM

http://www.folkfest.co.uk/


"Yes…. We are doing it all again on 31st Aug, 1st and 2nd Sept 2007
August 21st, 2007
A GREAT WEEKEND WITH OVER 100 HOURS OF
FREE LIVE MUSIC AND DANCE"


first one last year was excellent..


me and the mrs are definitely going back down there again next weekend
[handy having relatives in town with a spare room..]


..even though earlier this year
profiteering property developers knocked down one of the most historic pubs in the town
and one of last years best venues ..

..and even worse..

the only pub i knew there that served drought thatchers
has stopped stocking my favourite pint..

bastards..



still.. promises to be a top weekend at the seaside resort that time forgot..

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 04:20 AM

Drought Thatchers, haven't we had enough rain this year then?

Sounds good & thanks for the heads-up. Won't be able to get there myself, but maybe this'll atract some Catters!

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GerryMc
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 04:52 AM



I shall be there. I'm playing on the Saturday - if this cold and sore throat go awat :-(


Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 Aug 07 - 08:55 PM

Dragonsfly
Kerfuffle
Bag Of Rats
Ron Trueman Border
Jackie Oates
Tex Braithwaite & The Biryani Brothers
Mandelinky
Malarchy
Fallen Apples
Alun Parry
Kent DuChaine
Andy Clarke
Master of None
The Devil's Elbow
John Richards Band
DisKan
Christi Andropolis
Cruel Folk
Rosie Wilby
The Blue Vegas
Scholion
Jankie Fardal
Goodtimes Goodtimes
Sloe Jam
Mike Stafford & Friends
Pacific Groove
Pale Lilac
Richard Cox
Dave Scott & John Robinson
Mark Wilderspin
y'Strel's Band
Gerry McNeice
The Keeps
Mireille Mathlener
Janey Summer
Pink Froot
Late Licence
Chapter 2
No Shame
Jerichova
David Chave
Tim Dean & Paul Stradling
Diana Johnstone
Steve Brown
Pete Beach
Greg Aylmer
Morgan
Gary French
Sally Pritchard & Kathy King
Jason Grey & Nas Adal
Dave "Busker" Harris
Jerry Turner
Rob Carey
Alex Lipinski
Mervin
Gangreen
Annie Miles & Friends
Bright & High
Phil King
Pete Taylor
Ginger Sex
Jake Zennaman
Ankle Deep
Spark
Wellington Acoustic Music Club
The Old Down Acoustic Club
Folk in the Vale
Tigerfeet Appalachian Clog Side
Treacle Eater Clog
Alive and Kicking
Chalice Morris Men
Langport Mummers



see that lot..

and they are all FREE to enjoy
this coming weekend..


no.. i got nothing to do with the organization of next weekends free folkfest..

in fact i'll be well embarrassed if anyone here goes
and recognises who i am in real 3D life..

unless you buy me a cider and a bag of pork scratchings..


but respect to the the BOS crew who work so hard to make this happen
but are a bit too overworked
to maybe realise about all the folky internet publicity channels
like here at mudcat..

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GUEST,Penny Black
Date: 27 Aug 07 - 08:41 PM

One year! - if it's ever on a different week-end to Fylde I/we will get down to my second home, somerset (Dad's family all came from Bristol and my Grandad had a Strawberry farm in Cheddar)

Can think of very little better than a weekend of Music and some of those ice-creams from Forte's - nice music shop as well, last time we were down there.

have a good-un - and I'll make do with a "Mr Whippys"

Pete PB

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 01:35 PM

gurt big bump..

..and as a bonus you can down a few pints..

then walk out to the end of the jetty
and look out over the murky estuary,
conjuring up images of Barbary Pirates
raiding local beaches and towns
for slaves to ransom and sell in North Africa..


this free festival has got to be the most entertaining event
thats happened in the area ever since....

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 03:12 PM

"then walk out to the end of the jetty"

By jetty do you mean that sort-of extension to the road that leads down into the sea? My father told me that between the wars it had rail tracks and this is where coal rail wagons came ashore after being shipped across from Wales.

It was the first place he can remember seeing the sea, in 1923 when he was 5 (he was born in Street, near Glastonbury). And it was the last place he saw the sea too, in August 2004 when we took him for a trundle down the jetty in his wheelchair a month or so before he died - which was at a hospice a few miles up the coast, at Uphill.

Street to Uphill is about 20 miles, but he went further than that in his time - about nine million miles all told, having been an airline pilot in part of the period in between being 5 and 86.

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 07:22 PM

hi Nicholas..

no one would guess from the bland housing development estates
of Burnham & Highbridge today,
just how vital an industrialized rail & shipping nexus
these 'joined' towns used to be..

for so many forgotten historical reasons,
this dreary neglected area
[now struggling to exist mainly as a retirement & dormitory outpost
for Cities linked by the M5,
really does deserve this festival
to become a succesful long term annual event..



..just some quickly googled links re; the old railway line & jetty

http://www.sdjr.net/sd_desc3.html



http://www.nevard.com/sdjr/burnham.htm

Subject: RE: Burnham on Sea Folkfest
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Aug 07 - 07:29 PM

Clashes with the Wareham Wail, unfortunately...

Kitty