Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up

Subject: Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 03:21 AM

...at Shrewsbury folk festival this year including Elkie Brooks

I love Elkie (Salford Lass you know!) And it's good to see her still doing her stuff :-) Looks a great festival "featuring folk music, blues, Americana and world music." I am very tempted but it clashes with Whitby :-(

Subject: RE: Interesting line up
From: GUEST,JoeG
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 05:20 AM

We've been to Shrewsbury many times (did the first twenty festivals!) and loved it.
Not so keen on the new layout post COVID (though understand the reasoning). Instead of three marquees there is now a main open air stage which is at the far end of the site from the other main stages. So if the artists you want to see are across all three stages it's more difficult to get around - especially as you have to carry your chairs! We were lucky the year that we went with this new arrangement that almost everyone we wanted to see was on the open air stage and it didn't rain.
We'll only be going again when the line up is truly exceptional (in terms of our tastes) but it is very well organised, friendly and has fabulous bars so I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind risking being rained on.

Subject: RE: Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 24 - 07:34 AM

Thanks Joe - If ever I defect from Whitby, I know where to go :-)

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 04:06 PM

is where people come from important?
john cooper clarke graham nash ewan macColl all came from Salford, but they are all different

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: GUEST,Nick Dow
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 04:33 PM

I saw Elkie with Vinegar Joe in 1972. Her voice was phenomenal. I thought she was the sexiest woman I had ever laid eyes upon in those days. I was working as a part-time roadie for Argent (and occasionally Status Quo), so I saw them all for free.

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 04:57 PM

lune up includes
kathryn Tickell and Spiers and Boden and
Jacqui McShee Pentangle

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Apr 24 - 04:59 PM

Me too, Dick, but what does it have to do with anything at all? Her being a Salford lass was a pasing comment, not an invitation to a fight.

Nick - me too! What a presence she had and, I guess, still has. Did you know her uncle (I think) was the club owner involved in the battle of Bamber Bridge in WW2? But that's for a different thread too :-)

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 02:58 AM

Who wants to fight? my remark was not meant as an invtation to fight, more curiosity as to why being a Salford lass was important.

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 03:31 AM

I just said, Dick, "Her being a Salford lass was a pasing comment". It isn't important and I was not making a big thing of it. There is no deep meaningful reason for me saying it. It is the sort of thing I do. OK?

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 04:47 AM

Your Raison d'être?

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 07:48 AM

I like raisons in a cake...

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 08:29 AM

Sultanas in porridge are even better… ;-)

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Reinhard
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 08:48 AM

Sultanas of Swing?

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 09:08 AM

That is the currant way of thinking...

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 10:06 AM

LOL! :-)

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: GUEST,Groovy
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 10:37 AM

I couldn't give a fig.

Subject: RE: Shrewsbury Folk Festival - Interesting line up
From: peteglasgow
Date: 18 Apr 24 - 12:38 PM

we've been going to shrewsbury festival since the much - missed trowbridge village pump finished about 12-15 years ago. shrewsbury is very comfortable and easy for the older festival goer. there is always something good to see, and very often it's the bands you've never heard of, so the headliners aren't too important. it's always good for the dogs too- particularly greyhounds and lurchers, though sadly our Rosa has died so we'll miss her this year.