Bardney folk festival

Subject: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Skippy
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 07:35 PM

Did anyone else out there go to the "Bardney folk festival"
in Lincolnshire in 1971 or was it 72?
Or is it a figment of my imagination?
30+ plus years on I have never met anyone who has even heard of it!
It was aq big crowd for those days - or was it in my mind?

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 08:24 PM

I was there what agreat day James Taylor was fantastic.john C

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 08:24 PM

I was there what agreat day James Taylor was fantastic.john C

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 02:02 AM

Perhaps this previous thread will help!   Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 02:03 AM

PS It's 40 years on!! Doesn't it make us feel old??

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 07:29 PM

Yes! I was there in the summer of 1971---a few weeks after the more celebrated, but less well-attended, Glastonbury Fayre. The headliners were the Byrds, who were supposed to play an acoustic set, but actually went electric. James Taylor was good. So were the Incredible String Band. Steeleye Pan was on the bill--as were Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcgee. The crowd was enormous, with lots of Americans in attendance.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,rob allan
Date: 07 Dec 13 - 05:35 PM

Me and my mate Pete went. Overindulged all weekend and can't remember much apart from mud and humble pie pa breaking down. Had a pleasant liason with a girl called barbera from Stonehouse glos. I was 17 and at w.bridgford college. Hitched ride home to Grantham with humnle pie roady and I bad to sit on the broken Marshall amp! It would be really good to hear from others who went.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Mat Watkinson
Date: 29 May 15 - 09:23 AM

My 20th birthday - fantastic. I loved the awful sight of a stoned man slipping into a huge trench of shit and rain almost as much as the artists I came to see from Scarborough, where I was DJ at The Penthouse for 10 years of amazing rock and folk legends. Saw JT in Switzerland earlier this year - good as ever

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Stevegenney
Date: 06 Oct 15 - 05:35 PM

Long time a goi remember we crashed the fence and got in free buffy st Marie and Tim Hardin were really good

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Feb 16 - 03:49 PM

I was there. I remember Tom Paxton headlined.
Twas a memorable day.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Bill S in Adelaide
Date: 01 Mar 16 - 01:36 AM

I was there, they ran a special train from London, returning from Lincoln in the wee small hours. There only appeared to be one bus connecting, which I managed to get on and rode an almost empty train back to London. I have a couple of photos somewhere. It was an incredible line-up of just about everybody I wanted to see. The contrasts between Steeleye Span or the Byrds with the quiet sets of James Taylor and Tom Paxton around dusk was stunning.
It was a huge crowd and there were sections where you didn't need to smoke your own. It became a legendary event for those who were there. Thanks for the reminder.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Paul Richard Sheridan
Date: 04 Jul 16 - 09:10 PM

I was there, James Taylor was fantastic as was BStM. It was my first festival I think a live album exists with a photograph of the crowd? I remember some girls stripped off their tops. I was a student at the Grimsby College of technology. It was about the time our student union booked Elton John to appear at the Cleethorpes Winter Gardens, His contract stipulated a grand piano - tuned to concert pitch. His fee? £200. What a great time. The University of Kent at Canterbury awaited me. Bardney was brilliant. The early Cambridge folk festivals were brilliant too.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Liz
Date: 24 Jul 16 - 06:39 AM

I was there too-the most amazing line up ever!! I'll never forget the Byrdsplaying just as the sun was going down. I have photos of the Byrds and Robin Williamson back stage taken through a hole in the fence! I remember the fence around the toilets coming down-ugh!
I stayed in Lincoln over night and got the train back to Manchester the next day and found we were sharing it with The Incredible String Band as far as Sheffield awesome!
Will never forget my first festival😁

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Liz
Date: 24 Jul 16 - 08:08 AM

Just realised that it was 45 years ago today!!

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,Paul Richard Sheridan
Date: 07 Sep 16 - 06:59 AM

Sorry we paid £250 for Sir Elton!

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,mike robinson
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 04:18 PM

Yes I was at the Lincoln Folk Festival with a groups of friends from Reading in Berkshire. We travelled up for the day. Remember vividly the event and very glad I was there to enjoy the unique event.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 18 - 02:53 AM

My pal and me hitchhiked down from Glasgow,a tad too earlier than expected as we got too many lifts far too soon.We had 5 days to spare before the day.We hung around Lincoln and had a great time well looked after by the local people.A brilliant festival and crowd sadly my pal is no longer with me but I still have the great memories that will stay with me for ever.

Don't Forget To Boogie.

Subject: RE: Bardney folk festival
From: GUEST,John
Date: 20 Feb 19 - 07:00 PM

I was 18 and have great memories James Taylor and Ralph McTell Pentangle Incredible String Band Buffie St Marie Pentangle Donovan Sandy Denny Strawbs and many more . Great day and night .