Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help
From: Green Man
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 08:12 AM

Keep the help coming.

BUY TICKETS we need the money. :)

Anyway with all of this willing talent it should be a 'cracking weekend' (Gromit)

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help
From: Green Man
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 06:54 PM

Thanks all for the positive responses.

Please contact Marje as I am sure she will be pleased to hear from you.

GM

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Mick Tems
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 10:51 AM

I, for one, intend to come and do a spot, indeed several spots. Marje and Dave have always been good friends of mine, and I just could not turn away and see Alcester Festival die. Remember when I was recovering from a major stroke, Dave, and you still booked me? I shall always be grateful to you for that. please pm me - I'm sure we can work something out.

Mick Tems

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Doktor Doktor
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 09:31 AM

Well there's an incentive for mending the 'bus ... :-)

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: muppitz
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 08:11 AM

Sadly I'll be down south in the company of Alistair Russell recording my first CD (How exciting!!), otherwise I'd have loved to come!

Hope it goes well in my absence!

muppitz
x

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 07:37 PM

We are aware that it clashes with several "can't miss" folk events, and in an ideal world we might have chosen a different date. (In a really ideal world we wouldn't have needed to hold the fundraising event anyway!)

Unfortunately that weekend was the only time that the venue was available, and beggars can't be choosers.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Emma B
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:48 PM

Darn! it's Chester Folk Day too.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help
From: Tig
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:47 PM

Sounds like fun! I'll have to consult the diary.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:44 PM

Have now reset cookie, too!
Kitty

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:41 PM

Green Man - that's the weekend of the Sidmouth Middle Bar Singers and Radway Musicians reunion...

Kitty

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: GUEST,Tom Bliss
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 12:24 PM

And there's me, thinking, well Dave's kindly booked me at the club, so why don't I chip in with a spot at the A&A fundraiser. So I goes looking in the diary to see what I'm doing that weekend...

Doh! Playing Dave's club!

(And I'm at Shammic on the Sat which rather rules out a daytime spot as it's a fair drive... unless you'd like to reschedule the BTMC gig, Dave)?

Tom

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 12:23 PM

I will bid £11 then.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:56 AM

Although the Alcester Folk Festival in June is renowned for numerous free fringe events, the mini-festival in February is basically a fund-raising event to ensure the future of June festivals. Therefore I don't imagine that the committee will be giving much (if any) priority to events that do not contribute financially.

However, if anyone would like to put in a tender for a singaround franchise, I'm sure we'd look carefully at the highest bid! :-))

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:41 AM

If the tide goes out they could be sinagrounds.

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Carol
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:37 AM

I'hve been on the Website but it doesn't have a programme yet? Just wondered wha the arrangements would be for singarounds or even sinarounds? Bye the way Hi Marje

Good Luck Carol

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help
From: Green Man
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:11 AM

Greetings,

apologies for the oversight. 23rd/24th of February 2008

The dates and more details are on the website.

Festival Website.

Cheers

Green Man

Subject: RE: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help
From: Banjiman
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:07 AM

GM,

When is the weekend fundraiser planned for?

Thanks

Paul

Subject: Review: Alcester Folk Festival needs your help.
From: Green Man
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 09:05 AM

Greetings,

As all us Brits know, last years festival season was more of a monsoon than a summer idyll. The wet caused punters to stay away in droves and consequently our finances took a beating. I know that several festivals are in the same boat (geddit?) and, some alas are not going to run in 08 because of it.

We need more cash so we are holding an extra event. It will be at the Grieg Centre in Alcester just like the main festival. The difference is that there will be indoor camping at the sports hall opposite the festival site (with showers and toilets) and there will be limited space for camper-vans and caravans.

Here is a link Alcester Folk Festival

Some of you will notice a change in the link, this is because we are a not for profit ORG. all monies are reinvested in the festival. Of course this year it means that little money will be invested unless we can GET SOME!

That's where you come in. Come to the weekend, buy a ticket, or come and perform for those who buy tickets.

Contact details will be on the new website probably tonight or Tuesday night. Help in any form will be appreciated.

Have a good week.

Green Man