'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Ianzblues
Date: 04 Aug 12 - 12:23 PM

Does anyone remember Rev. Gary Davis being at this event? It is listed on his itinerary for that tour, but none of the recollections posted here include him.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,trainspotter 52
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 06:19 AM

I was 22 and a graduate trainee at British Steel in Corby. We been out for our normal friday night session when someone mentioned this folk festival tomorrow at Lincoln. So following morning with hangovers we pile into a car and head up the A1 towards Lincoln Can remember getting lost a couple of times ( no sat navs then) and arriving just as the show started. I remember the Byrds coming on and playing an acoustic opening then announcing to the audience that it was supposed to be an acoutic festival "well Fuck that" and went into an incredible electric set. Other stand out sets for me were Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee; James Taylor and Buffy Saint Marie. It was certainly the greatest one day festival that I'd been to before or since. Sitting playing * miles high brings it all back

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Greg
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 05:18 AM

I was 17, in the lower sixth. I have no idea how it came together,but I went to Lincoln with Wendy and Joy, friends from school in Wendy's dad's Austin. I recall driving it into the field where we parked and almost getting stuck. I think I remember the tree, but really only two things stick out in my memory: Meeting James Taylor who was a hero of mine at the time, talking for a little while, then asking for his autograph, knowing how crass it sounded, and he said 'you know what a pile of crap this is'. Didn't I know it! The other is of the Byrds (more heroes) crashing into 'So you want to be a rock and roll star' under the lights. I was a bit of a folkie, but at that point I knew where I was going next. I wish I could say great memories, but they're really only mental snapshots - scenarios, after 40 odd years

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,dennis poole
Date: 08 Feb 12 - 09:59 AM

Having just purchased Grateful Dead at Bickershaw CD I browsed for Lincoln '71 and came up with this forum. I recall the occasion far better than the music itself. I was just 18 and my brother had recently graduated. We were at a loose end and so decided to hitch from St.Helens to Lincoln. We set off from Windle Island on the A580 and after ages got stuck on the Mancunian Way. I will always remember the guy who picked us up in his mini and took us all the way to Lincoln via Sheffield. We got to the site in pitchblack and found a campfire to try and bed down only to be kept awake by some freak complaning about a lack of tatties on the fire. Call yourselves Hippies he kept saying. Entering the arena was a bit disconcerting due to the signs saying "beware of Adders." I recall the loo's as a bit long, deep trench. We met up with some girlfriends of mine, Val and Helen, who had been pea picking near Wisbech. We had really gone to see The Byrds and I recall they did an electric set, but had completely forgotten about James Taylor. If I had I would have dined out on the fact I'd seen him at the start of his career! Getting home was a similar adventure, involving coaches to Manchester and getting the first train back to St.Helens Junction and then a bus back home. However, the funniest moment was trying to negotiate a way out of the arena. I stumbled over someone's legs and in putting my hand down to stop my fall I ended up walloping some poor guy in the nuts. Even though it was dark I can still recall him jacknifing and the sound of him exhaling with a resounding oooooofffff still makes me laugh some 40 years later. Little things, little things!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Davy, Charlie . Ed . Cass.
Date: 19 Jan 12 - 11:22 AM

We were the first to arrive at the campsite on the Tuesday. Why I can't remember. A reporter came to interview us and managed to drive her car into deep ditch halfway across the field. It was amazing to watch the field fill up at first slowly then by hoards.
We camped right next to a tree in the middle of the field. So everyone that arrived on Wednesday and Thursday came our way to say hello. Including some hells angels. which was a bit of a worry but they seemed quite friendly. And gave us lift into town on their easy rider style bikes to buy ciggies and booze (no crash helmets). We spent the night swigging cider and wine mixed in the same large plastic bottle. Never been able to even think about that since. I don't know why but I keep on thinking we met Richard Branson at that event. ???

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,bodhran terry
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 08:42 AM

Doesn't anyone remember the tree (or was that Weeley?) Soldier Blue - WOW! Purple Cloud over the site, (well, I saw it as purple!)

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 07:27 AM

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/s.html

Sandy Denny's set is here - scroll down to Sandy Denny & the Happy Blunderers!!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Phil Murphy
Date: 05 Jan 12 - 06:29 AM

What a brilliant day that was. We had walked from Chesterfield to Newark the previous day because none of the four of us wanted to split into twos to make hitching lifts easier. We ended up at Newark Station over night where a very officious Station Master would not let anyone onto the platform until the 4.30 milk train for Lincoln came, by which time the four of us had grown to about 40. There must be people who remember being there. The police came at least twice because the station master could smell some funny smoke. Then we walked the 12 miles from Lincoln out to the site on what was a bright sunny morning which would turn into a wet afternoon.
My recollection was that the Byrds were quite out of character and tone with the rest of the acts as they had such a polished audio and light system. Pentangle were drowned out by the sound of rain on the plastic sheets people had as rainwear but despite the weather the day was amazing and looking back the line-up was incredible. James Taylor, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, sandy Denny, Buffy St.Marie, Incredible String Band & The Byrds are the ones who really stand out to me now, though I actually recall all the acts being on - clearly i was not intoxicated.
What I cannot work out is how we found anything to eat after early morning.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bib
Date: 11 Dec 11 - 01:45 PM

My friend and I (the late Kevin Thorpe : Out of the Blue and Tipping Point)had hitched lifts all the way to Bangor in North Wales to see some friends on the Friday before - when we got there we were told they were going to Bardney (about 15 miles from where we had started!). We went to the festival with them leaving very early in the morning. No money!!! Just walked in (I remember the signs about snakes too). Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were my favoutites there. Lovely day - I fell asleep when Buffie St Marie was on - I was tired

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Strummin Steve Jackson
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 03:48 PM

I wrote a song about this event entitled "The 1971 Folk Music Festival Blues" It was one of entries in the 2010 Lincolnshire Folk Song Comp. It didn't win but I was happy to make the final. It's on my (blatant commercial plug coming up) new CD "Songs For Folk To Sing
but in the true spirit of Christmas you can hear it for free at www.reverbnation.com/strumminstevejackson

I tried to list as many of the performers as I could in the song but I'm usually reminded at a gig that I've missed someone out!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mike Robnson
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 03:20 AM

Remember the festival very well 5 of us went from Reading set up very early. Brilliant festival a long walk back to the car, including giving Julie a shoulder carry for a distance that seemed like miles. Warm sunny day just incredible. All the best.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,another who was there
Date: 04 Sep 11 - 06:36 PM

hitched from south wales to get there - slept in a large pipe the night before about 30 miles from lincoln . . . only to wake up to four other people sleeping in the same concrete pipe! james taylor and the byrds stood out for me but an amazing music festival up there with bath and isle of white

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mick Stupp
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 04:43 AM

Most treasured weekend my life - a moment in time, and the music was excellent too. Never matched.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,WillC
Date: 15 Jul 11 - 02:59 PM

I googled Lincoln Folk Festival and found this thread having just come back from T in the Park with my 15 year old son. Lincoln in 1971 was my first festival; I was 14 and my elder brother drove me up there from Worcestershire in our mum's Mini Traveller, so I was trying to explain to my son the differences which 40 years have made to festivals....My least blurred memories are of Tom Paxton, The Byrds, and Buffy, but the stories for my son were of the toilets - especially the torching thereof, and the lack of any commercial food outlets, which meant that by mid morning on the day of the festival, the only local shop had been stripped completely bare of anything edible!! Happy days.....

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bill Rayner
Date: 05 Jul 11 - 07:58 AM

I'm glad I found this thread. This was the first 'festival' I had been to, went with my pal Stuart travelling up from Watford. Looking at the artists I had forgotten some! I see Tom Paxton on a regular basis when he is over and managed to see Buffy this week at Cornbury - she is still amazing at 70!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jun 11 - 02:06 AM

Refreshed in response to a new thread!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Bill S from Adelaide
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 11:58 PM

I remember seing posters in London which listed just about everybody I wanted to hear. Got the special train to Lincoln, there was a connecting bus and probably unwittingly enjoyed some happy baccy. I vaguely remember that Tom Paxton came after the Byrds as the contrast and the sunset were quite magical. There was only one bus shuttling back to Lincoln, I managed to be on it so was one of a handful of people who were on the special train. I'd forgotten about the loos, thanks for reminding me. Not.
40 years ago.
They didn't have morris dancing, I'd never heard of it then.
Got a cople of photos somewhere, might put them on fb for the anniversary.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 09:00 PM

I was there for some of it - the best bits by all accounts. IIRC Buffy was top of the bill. I was chuffed that she had got that much recognition, and she didn't disappoint. Which reminds me that my first encounter with Billy Connolly was at Bishop Grosseteste (where I was a governor) a year or two earlier.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Kath
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 08:08 PM

I remember this well. I was at Lincoln Art College and the organisers had sent some posters for the college and 4 free tickets for our social secretary. But term had finished and everyone had gone home - just me and my friend Elaine tidying up our work. So we had 2 tickets each. I was working in a bar all summer and asked the boss for that Saturday off - he said no so I gave in my notice. Anyway he had to beg me to come back!!
I remember the Byrds being fantastic and sitting under the stars listening to James Taylor.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Steve
Date: 23 May 11 - 08:04 AM

http://www.btinternet.com/~stevengo/lincolnfolk.htm

This is a link to a website I did a number of years ago. E-Mail me with more memories.
One day in our lives we all have fond memories of !

Rock on
Steve

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: danensis
Date: 10 May 11 - 06:09 PM

http://www.btinternet.com/~stevengo/lincolnfolk.htm

John

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 11 - 07:21 PM

Watched 18 minutes of footage from what looks like a local TV programme about this festival, introduced by Richard "Countdown" Whiteley. Interviews with James Taylor, Tom Paxton, etc -- looked to be a great festival.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,dave
Date: 15 Mar 11 - 04:24 AM

do you still have any of the flyers -- would luv one as i have the prog and ticket

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Another who was there
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 11:18 AM

I remember the night before very well; I crashed in a marquee or something like it, next to a couple of Canadian backpackers & there were tomato sandwiches being passed around. Strange memories, waiting for the first act to appear and sitting listening to CS&N records over the PA, and gradually going through stoned to mellow....
The early hours of the next morning I had a ride to Lincoln, then hitched south and ended up walking for about three hours along the railroad line to where I lived at the time.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Mar 11 - 12:44 AM

This thread started in 2005.. like I said before.. "I think I'll die before it does" ... but oh such memories!!!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: danensis
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 06:26 PM

Amazed this thread is still going, but just to clarify, the list I gave above is from the original programme, and doesn't reflect the running order on the day. I would have stayed to hear Buffy StMarie, but my girlfriend (later my wife) was only 18 and her parents wanted her home - although as it happened we never arrived until the next day.

John

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Guest Cymraeg
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:33 PM

This was my first festival. I was 16 and went with my then boyfriend whose mother lived near-by. I don't even remember how we got to the festival or the toilets! But I do remember The Byrds and Incredible String Band, who I was nuts about. I remember us trying to leave and gave up and put up our pup tent in what we thought was a field. No sleeping bags or change of clothes, oh to be young and free. Woke up next morning in the middle of a road interchange with cars wizzing all around us.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,gogs
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 07:11 PM

Buffy St Marie was absolutely tremendous and as it was getting cold she asked if any guy had any room in his tent to warm her up! That brought a few shouts! The Byrds were excellent as were all the acts. Hard to believe that it was only £2! Can't remember a problem with the toilets. Hate to think what problems I'd have with that now!!!

I remember four of us travelling back to Scotland in a mini in horrendous mist. The threads have brought back wonderful memories. I still have a few of the flyers in mint condition if anyone wants one.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Danny
Date: 22 Oct 10 - 07:54 AM

I was just 18 and came up with my (then) girlfriend. Fantastic line up, especially ISB, Pentangle, James Taylor. I remember we ended up helping the caterers / beer tent people load up afterwards in exchenge for free booze and some travel money. Never again any festival like it for sheer concentration of so many fantastic acts

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 05:32 AM

I was at both the 1971 folk one, AND the Great Western Express one the following year. I was 16 in 1971and quite surprised my mum let me go.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Steve & Marl
Date: 21 Oct 10 - 01:44 AM

We were in our very early twenties with a 3 year old daughter and a Basset Hound . We travelled up from Portsmouth in an old mini and squeezed two or three more people in during the long treck to the site. I remember the toilets and my wife going back to the farmhouse and telling them our daughter wouldn't use the site loos, so that she could use them herself. Fabulous line-up and a memorable festival.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 11:46 AM

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,guest - Jim Younger
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 08:26 PM

Still plugging away at stairway to heaven i'm afraid. But I am writing a book of hippy myths and tales that I have been collecting for about ten years. Some amazing things happened at that time. I'm trying to get it all down on paper before all the originals drift off to the great free fest in the sky! Keep on truckin'

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,neil
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 12:38 AM

Just saw Tom Paxton tonight and It bought back memories of the festival. Does anyone remember how Tim Hardin was ? , i was not overly impressed with Dion as I had no idea who he was back then .

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,guest - Jim Younger
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 08:26 PM

Yippee ... I echo Deskjet's Wow, and say Wow again. You should write a song about it. Very entertaining. Thanks.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: skipy
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 08:21 PM

I was there & I still have the original prog! It was there that I saw Harvey Andrews! The rest of it is history, e.g. Raf Coningsby folk club was formed 4 days later, Raf Luqa Malta, Raf Brize Norton, Raf Halton, followed by Stanford in the Vale folk festival, Folkforms, & White Horse folk festival, that weekend has a lot to answer for!
Skipy

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Deskjet
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 08:11 PM

Yippee....... Wow!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,yippee
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 05:38 PM

Re the girls on the other side of the fence, Martyn, they came with us in our Commer hippy van and yes they were all quite stunning (or was that stunned?). We were very radical at that time and thought all festivals ought to be free. Looking at the bands who were playing I can't believe we regarded £2 as a capitalist ripoff, but we all sat in the field until the security staff had so many complaints they came over and begged us to come in for free but not tell anyone. They were really nice guys. The only band I can remember with any sort of clarity were the Byrds. We were flying much too high for folk music and so left quite early for the seaside. I daren't tell you everything we got up to in the next 48hrs but all those implicated agreed it was fairly freaky and most enjoyable. Pre-watershed highlights were the clutch pedal breaking off(!!!)and having to be replaced by a pull string operated from the passenger seat (think about it); three dimensional caterpillar races on a busy coastal path; a darts match in a violent thunderstorm; running out of petrol at 2am in the middle of nowhere and being confronted by a hysterical woman in a night dress & curlers, toting a loaded shotgun; a 20 mile high speed drive in a police car with lights and hooter in the middle of the night to get petrol from an unmanned pump in Nottinghamshire and then telling the policeman I hadn't any money (if you are reading this mr pc thanks-you were amazing); climbing out of a stone sarcophagus at dawn in a mist-enveloped ruined Gothic abbey (Roche? Fountains? still no idea) just as the first tourists arrived. Golden days indeed.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Martyn Williams - now of Portugal
Date: 18 Sep 10 - 07:27 PM

I was there as a 16 year kid. I was told I couldn't go, but went anyway. My friend and I travelled up from South Wales, hitching and catching buses. We slept the night before in one of the old style bus shelters. Shared it with some Hell's Angels!
The best festival I've ever been too. Ralph McTell opened and The Byrds were amazing. But those toilets ... and the girls seated the other side of the fence watching!!!
Took us 3 days to hitch back home. I walked in the house and my dad just said, 'You're back then?' Was I relieved!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Strummin Steve
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 06:41 PM

Antique Sandy is a fine song & is on the Byrds "Father Along" album

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Guest from Brooklyn NY
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 02:20 PM

I was 17 and living in Paris going to the Sorbonne learning french that summer after graduating high school and before going off to the University of Michigan Art School that fall. I lived at Cite Universitaire in the American House. A bunch of people heard about the concert in Lincoln so we divided up and hitched there. I went with a guy I had just met, we got rides from truck drivers, slept in a tent on camp grounds and made it to Calais where we took the hovercraft over to Dover. We got to London somehow and then took the train up to Lincoln.
We spent the night with about 200 other people in a salvation army building.
The next morning I left my companion, who I didn't really like and met up with two British guys. It was about 5 am and they stole someone's milk from their door step which we shared and then walked to the concert site through the sleeping town. We sneaked onto the site through a hole in the fence.

I remember the crowds and getting high and hanging out with these two nice guys. I loved the music, and wasn't too familiar with a lot of the groups, really being a rock and roll American girl. I remember James Taylor, and had hopes that Carole King would show, but she didn't.
Amazingly enough, in the days before the ubiquitous cell phone and gps
my friends found me!
After the concert ended we hitched a ride with some locals to the train station, and managed somehow to get back to Paris. Someone had some money, I was broke

It was great fun, and I never told my parents.....hitch hiking was a big no no! They never let me go to Woodstock so this was payback!

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Alan Watson
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 05:55 AM

•Buffy Sainte Marie
•Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy
•Dion
Belatedly hope this helps

•Incredible String Band
•James Taylor
•Pentangle
•Ralph McTell
•Sandy Denny
•Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
•Steeleye Span
•The Byrds
•Tim Hardin
•Tom Paxton
•The Byrds were booked to play an acoustic set, but because of the fantastic way they went down playing electric at the previous year's Bath Festival, they again stole the show by being the only band to play an electric set, on the day.
•It was described as a very successful, trouble-free event.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jun 10 - 07:57 PM

the setlist is wrong buffy sainte-marie played after midnight cause my girlfriend got cold during james taylor and had to go so i missed her best festival ive been to highlites ralph mctell tom paxton dion james taylor and the byrds good times

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Simon
Date: 21 May 10 - 06:25 PM

Thanks for sharing those memories ... they awoke long dormant memories of my own. I was 19 & touring haphazardly around England for a couple of months that summer going from one music gig or festival to another interspersed with free B&B + laundry stops with various tolerant relatives and friends. Someone had told me that James Taylor was playing at the Festival and it had not been that many months before since an American friend in Jamaica (where I was living at the time) had introduced me to the Sweet Baby James album. I really loved that album & had been playing it over and over for a good while ... so I hitched to Lincoln. Don't know how close I got though because I remember walking for more than a few hours to actually reach the festival site.

Was it really just £2 to get in? Amazing!

Before finding this thread after after just typing in Lincoln 1971 (isn't the internet great when you get bored and nostalgic!) I could only partially remember bits of the sets James Taylor & Buffy Sainte-Marie played ... (really great - the first time I saw either of them play). I had attributed my limited recollections to the good herb available and also because I got pretty friendly during the show with this cute lady I'd met up there. However, having read the earlier posts I actually do now recall snatches of Pentangle, Incredible String Band, Tom Paxton playing and how could I have forgotten The Byrds?!

I must have crashed out at some point in the night towards the back of the field in front of the stage. I clearly remember groggily waking up to find that incarnation of Venus I had gotten to know a few hours earlier looking over at me with a big smile while she made love to another guy inside a sleeping bag next to me. No problem ..it was cool. We were not alone that morning as there must have been dozens of others either sleeping or getting up in that muddy debris strewn field. Anyway, it was pretty uncomfortable once awake so the three of us smoked a joint for breakfast after the goddess and her new partner finished their constricted aerobic session and then I suppose I must have headed off for some food & a ride to somewhere else...

Great music and good memories! What more can one want from a music festival....

Walk good.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,alan
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 08:18 AM

I was at Tupholme manor park,July 24th 1971 and have the program.It was the best one day concert i had ever been to.line up in order of appearance, Ralph Mctell,Steeleye Spam,Tim Hardin,Pentagle,Dion,Incredible String Band,Buffy Sainte Maria,Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee,Tom Paxton,The Byrds Sandy Denny,James Taylor,Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy.I also remember the large house behind the stage.Does any one know if there is any photos on a web page xxx

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 05:30 AM

Yep, I was there too (18) My most vivid memory is Buffy Sainte-Marie. She looked fantastic in electric blue tight trousers (very fitting for a rendition of Soldier Blue) and a red shiny top. I saw her last night at the Queen Elisabeth Hall (Southbank, London) She still looks amazingly good (given she's 68!)

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Banjiman
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 06:17 AM

Oggie, here's one you will appreciate!

You are correct that Lincoln Morris Men didn't get invited to the festival. I checked with my Mum.

In fact Lincoln Morris Men and Lincoln Folk Dancers did a display in a hall in Woodhall Spa on the same day. This was memorable for my Mum as apparently she got left behind by my Dad as she was sweeping up in the hall following the display. This meant that she ended up having to get a lift home on the back of Andy Francis's motorbike in full "folk dancing kit".

The route back to Lincoln (and home) from Woodhall Spa goes straight through Bardney where the Folk Festival was taking place. The sight of her on the back of said motorbike apparently raised a few eye brows (and she claims a few wolf whistles!) from the trendy young things milling about outside the festival.

I do vaguely remember ( I was 6) several days of stoney silence in the Arrowsmith household after this event....... my Dad was not popular!

Paul

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: GUEST,Mystic Mel
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:53 AM

I remember that Byrds guitarist Clarence White played a "stringbender"
Fender Telecaster which he had invented.It sounded just like a
Steel guitar and funnily enough my mate has got one now They also played
a song called "Antique Sandy" which McGuinn claimed they had wrote
backstage and Ive never seen on record.Their set was absolutely
stunning.

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: oggie
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 06:20 PM

The following year they held "The Great Western Express" rock festival on the same site with a good bunch of folkes also in attendence.


Lincoln Rock Festival


All the best

Steve

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: oggie
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 06:15 PM

Lincoln Morris Men were around in 1971 (Banjiman's dad was the musician) but we didn't get an invite :(

Steve

Subject: RE: 'Lincoln' Folk festival July 1971
From: Tim Leaning
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 07:57 AM

I was 11 LOL