National folk festival

Subject: National folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 18 - 04:48 PM

Can anyone tell me when the last national folk festival was held at sutton boningto?
Chris

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 27 Aug 18 - 04:58 PM

If I remember correctly it was April 2005. Sutton Bonington was no longer available after that due to the University not closing for Easter.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: The Sandman
Date: 27 Aug 18 - 05:49 PM

We need it back again.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: GUEST,Chris
Date: 27 Aug 18 - 06:02 PM

Thanks

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: GUEST,oldnickilby
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 07:40 AM

I understood that the University double booked the time slot at a far bette
r rate

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 09:11 AM

It was definitely April 2005. John Heydon was offered August as an alternative to April for the following year, as the accommodation wouldn't be needed by students then.....

Kitty

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 05:35 PM

Was it the previous year (2004) when it couldn't happen because of the foot and mouth epidemic?

The Sandman said
> We need it back again.

I agree. However besides Sutton Bonnington being unavailable for Easter, I think John Heydon had had about enough of the labour of organising it, and there seemed no sign of a volunteer(s) to take over.

Now that there are so many folk festivals, therefore evidently loads of people able and willing to organise them, can't we find anyone to revive The National?

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: JHW
Date: 29 Aug 18 - 07:17 PM

I preferred it at Loughborough but of course I was younger then.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 31 Aug 18 - 06:51 PM

Richard M - it was 7th April 2001 when we had a National replacement day at Cecil Sharp House, because the foot and mouth epidemic meant that the festival couldn't go ahead at Sutton Bonington.

Kitty

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 05:16 PM

Thanks Kitty. I do vaguely remember that National replacement day, now that you mention it.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: treewind
Date: 01 Sep 18 - 06:48 PM

I think John Heydon would have run another one (at the time: I doubt he would now) but the problem was finding a venue that satisfied all the requirements. I think there had been a national change in timings of terms and vacations, which made events like the National impossible, not only at Loughborough but at many similar educational institutions that might otherwise have worked.

The English Country Music Weekends at the end of June, though different in focus and scale, have become a sort of replacement for parts of the National. There's certainly a lot of the same people there, and similar events.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: GUEST,mick robshaw
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 11:54 AM

I went to the festival from 1972 to 2005 and what i enjoyed most about was seeing the older singers and musicians.Would love to see it resurected.

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: GUEST,Derek Schofield
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 03:26 PM

We are all the older singers now, alas.....

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 04:17 PM

The only National Folk Festival I've heard of is the Australian one. How are the prospects for that looking, given the catastrophe?

Subject: RE: National folk festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Dec 19 - 07:57 PM

Acts are selected from Nov to Jan for 2020 National Folk Festival Bush Music Club (Australia's oldest folk club, est. 1954) applied for 4 gigs & have been accepted for 3 so far.

We would all hope the fires are still not around in April. I've been posting reports on the BS thread about Australian bushfires.

sandra