Whitby folk festival

Subject: Whitby folk festival
From: GUEST,Tatts
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 05:53 AM

We are returning to the F.F. this year after taking a break I have always gone to the Cobblers Monday singarounds, the last time I went to the F.F. this was no longer on the programme, does any mud caters know if it will be on this year?

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 07:22 AM

There is a facebook page where people chat about the festival, so if no-one here knows. Last year there were the mid-morning Shanty sessions in the Endeavour (crowded) and an evening singaround in the Rifle club run by Jo & Mo and no doubt others both on the programme and Fringe.

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: JHW
Date: 05 Jan 19 - 05:11 PM

Coblers Monday group biog here but their own site came up as 'not found'.

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: r.padgett
Date: 06 Jan 19 - 03:55 AM

I think Mick, Angie and Liam do there own thing nowadays in the Friendship club ~ likely other unofficial singarounds will happen

Ray

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 07 Jan 19 - 09:28 AM

Graeme Knights and Jim Magean usually run the lunch time singaround in the Endeavour with a nautical theme. There is also a singaround upstairs in the Spa every lunchtime and of course Mo and Jos.

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: GUEST,Joe Nicholson
Date: 08 Jan 19 - 07:06 PM

There is usually a programmed singaround run buy a different festival guest each afternoon in The Star.

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: GUEST,Tatts
Date: 21 Jan 19 - 07:59 AM

Thank you to all who replied looking forward to the festival.

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 08:04 AM

Not going back after our horrendous experience last year.

A new problem for this year which makes it even less appealing: the Whitby War Weekend starts as soon as the Folk Week finishes. This wouldn't have been a problem in earlier years - it's been a small-scale nostalgiafest for people who like to dress up in tin hats and beige cardigans. But given where England is going, it's all too likely to turn into a Farascist rally with the whole town taken over by drunken thugs in Union Jack T-shirts. (I haven't been monitoring the murkier regions of social media to see what the kippers might be planning, but somebody ought to).

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Mo the caller
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 09:50 AM

Well, I had a great time last year, as every year.
Hadn't heard of War weekend (sounds an odd idea)

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 10:08 AM

Mo tc - for your info, Episode 4 of the recently shown second series of Channel 5's programmes about the North Yorkshire Steam Railway featured the War Weekend and the railway's role during the Second World War. Last year, for the first time, the organisers banned the attendance of re-enacters from the German side....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 02:40 PM

isn't the place busy enough without a War weekend?

Subject: RE: Whitby folk festival
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 04:43 PM

The War Weekend seems to have been a fairly low-key hobbyist event so far - it follows on from WFW, so the folkies would be leaving as the war buffs arrive.

I don't know what to make of disinviting the German re-enactors. Re-enacting WW2 is such an un-German thing to do that I presume most of that side are actually British?