Beverley Folk Festival

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Les from Hull
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 07:06 PM

Well done everyone involved with the festival! Maggie has asked me to particularily mention how much she enjoyed 'meeting Si Kahn'. What a man! And she was very pleased also with the opportunity of introducing him at Friday's singaround!

All our experiences were great. Here's looking forward to next year. If anybody hasn't had the chance to come to a Beverley festival, perhaps out comments will help you find an excellent festival in a lovely friendly town.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: mississippi john
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 05:05 PM

all i can say is, GREAT WEEKEND

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can't say any more, sore throat with to much singing.

roll on next year

m / j

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Kampervan
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 11:03 AM

Great weather, great fringe, great festival.

Can't speak, voice totally shot away so I must have enjoyed it.

When next year's is being planned, I know that nothing stays the same and that everything has to evolve, but please please please make sure that nothing is allowed to affect the essence of the Beverley experience.

Its a big festival that has all the friendliness and intimacy of a very small one.

That was a bit of clumsy way of saying it, but I'm sure that most people that were there will know what I mean.

Thanks to everyone who organised the festival and the fringe.

Kampervan

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Willa
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 09:34 AM

Oombanjo's the man!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Willa
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 09:33 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Black Diamond
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 09:16 AM

Hi everyone
Ive just come back from Beverley, never been before. superb organisation and very well run - thanks to all organisers - you even got the weather right. only one thing I would grumble about and that is that there was so much going on I coulnt get to it all!!! the reason I have been tempted to "sign on" mudcats is 'cos I wanted to thank the very kind gentleman who told us, the couple stood outside Chez Nous watching the bagpipes that the players were Shiftypig and that they were going to play in Hodgsons - it wasnt until he had gone , that my husband said he had a mudcat badge on and called himself OOmsomething!!! well Shiftypig were really really good, and we took the opportunity to enjoy a superby roast dinner at the same time, so if you remember talking to us - thanks Oomsomething!! we were with our morris side and we all had a fantastic time
cheers Black Diamond

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 07:58 AM

Sorry I couldn't get this year. First time I've missed it in 20 years !!! but unfortunately was absolutely 'pink lint' Glad everyone had a good time.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Carol
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 06:48 AM

Just arrived home from Beverley on Monday morning, enjoyed every session that I managed to get to, Hodgsons on Friday, Monks Walk and Monks Walk again!! Plus Syntan on the Sunday morning which was great as well etc. etc. THANKS EVERYONE FOR A GREAT FRINGE WEEKEND

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 04:43 AM

Unfortunately there aren't enough hours in the day to get around all of the sessions and events in one weekend! But the people and general atmosphere make the Beverley festival an unmissable event. Roll on next year. Especially enjoyed Monks Walk and Foresters Arms sessions.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Pistachio
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 06:20 PM

Huge Thanks to John and Sheila - the whole weekend was so easygoing and enjoyable because of the thought and planning that went into it. Another success helped by background hard work. Great to have Fringe parking and 'camping' tickets.
Lovely to meet up with familiar voices and faces! I still have a terrible memory for names ....and I do still have a voice - but only just!
Sorry I missed the Monks sessions Mick I got waylaid in The Sun and Hodgsons with Les+Maggie, MIssissippi John and Roger. The 'Ladies' sesssion worked surprisingly well with a wonderful collection of material.
Now to get to sleep (for more than 5 hours!)
H.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Fee Lock
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 02:55 PM

Well, as a complete newcomer to the festival, I can only say how enjoyable it was to see so many newbies and townspeople, as well as the usual ceilidh-o-philes at the Memorial Hall with Pidgeon English playing. I hope there's more of it!

Fee x

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Nick
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 06:51 AM

Second the comments about the Monks Walk Lynne and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I thought it was really well run by Mick especially managing to broadly keep the bet part of a 100 people quietish so as the singers could be heard. Nice one.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 18 Jun 06 - 05:40 AM

Yesterday afternoon's session hosted by Mick in the Monks Walk beer garden was excellent. Looks like more of the same today. Jane, another option this afternoon is a singer/songwriter type session at the Forresters pub by the beck.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: JamesBerriman
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 07:41 PM

We had a good time at Monk's Walk this evening. The Sun was packed out on friday night.

Tomorrow I'm tempted to try out the 'unique sound' on Syntan, the barge moored on the Beck.

James

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Jane, thisisull
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 08:48 AM

I might be coming to Beverley tomorrow for a wee wander - haven't been to the fest for a couple of years! Can anyone recommend any 'fringe' events ie. free sessions that might be worth going to? Who's playing around - Harri Watts, Cracktown, Cowfish?

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Jane, thisisull
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 08:45 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 17 Jun 06 - 02:22 AM

It comes with living on the wrong side of the tracks!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Shiplap Structure3
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 01:30 PM

Dear HPB at least the Folk festival gets your vote if nothing else!!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Hand-Pulled Boy
Date: 16 Jun 06 - 12:04 PM

It looks like a fine weekend ahead with lots of sunshine. This calls for my best straw hat...........................

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Graham and Jo
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 06:18 PM

Chris Wade and co put in a lot of hard work and run a good festival. They are appreciated. Luckily Beverly supports a lot of folk stuff, and lots of different kinds of folk events run throughout the year. Nothing will compete with or undermine the folk festival.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: squeezeboxhp
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 05:47 PM

just another two pen'orth, when the teams have been parading ,performing throughout the day and are unable to attend daytime organised sessions we are obliged to join in and enjoy the fringe because by the time we have cleaned off fed and arrived at the top line acts we have to wait until every paying customer has entered the venue, this p**sses some off as if it were not for the teams no daytime street entertainment would be available plus the partners half price ticket still has to wait so no seat saving there. so for me the fringe is wellworth supporting

Whinge over
see you all there

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: oombanjo
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 04:47 PM

Time to finish the type of thread this has become. For the first year, this year, the festival has offered camping only at £10.00/ night, if it works it will continue. one for all and all for one.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Les from Hull
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 12:49 PM

Yes Carol, it's a lack of space thing at Beverley. But there's a public campsite just down the road, about 1 mile south of Beverley (Lakeminster Park).

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Carol
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 09:36 AM

Sorry Les but some festivals privide camping, paid for of course and then separate event tickets, which to me as a non-concert goer is the fairest way. I'm quite happy to pay a reasonable price for camping but do not see why I should also have to pay for 'stars', dance bands etc. when I'm not interested in them. My husband usually comes with me as the driver and then we have to buy 2 season tickets so we can camp and I can get into the singarounds. B-- dear do then!! Bedworth is one like that you can't even get into the singarounds without a season ticket, never mind the camping,so we don't go any more.
Makes peoole like me organise weekends like Denaby weekend sing.

Finally I hope my singing adds to the festival atmosphere!!!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Les from Hull
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 08:31 AM

I think that the fringe has always worked well enough with the festival. In past years the festival provided people to run musicians sessions in the Tiger and singarounds in Nellies (later in the Sun) which were attended by a mixture of ticket holders and people who were just there for the fringe. Currently the organisers liase with the fringe people who provide these services.

I also think that the feelings that some people had that the festival never welcomed the fringe stemmed from the inability of the festival organisers to provide 'camping only' tickets. I don't remember this ever happening at Beverley, where camping space has become more limited each year as the Leisure Centre has grown. I don't think that many other festivals provide 'camping only' facilites either, so it's wrong to single out the Beverley Festival organisers for this. Lt's all look forward to another great Beverley and East Riding Folk Festival!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: ossonflags
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 04:06 AM

Sorry to be pedantic and whingeing old McBean, but neiher of you are correct.It was HUMPHREY Smith not his dad.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 06 - 03:29 AM

Hey there Oombanjo,fear not! Of course we support the festival. The whole atmosphere of the festival and the fringe are bound up together and I think that the fringe benefits from the festival as a whole. (Even though I did really enjoy the Peoples Voice weekend).

It's juist that the festival has never really been comfortable with the fringe. Moving reluctantly from ignoring itin the early days to discouraging it, then grdging acceptance that it was here to stay.

I don't the fringe to be organised as part of the full blown festival but full co-operation would be good. Then we can all enjoy the weekend together.

Love and peace.

Kampervan

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 07:15 PM

Actually it's Sam Smiths who banned the music, sorry to correct you old bean

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: harpmaker
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 05:53 PM

Nellie's (John Smiths) 'banning' live music was bad enough. Is this the thicker eage of the wedge?? More to come?????

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: oombanjo
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 05:25 PM

OOPS, The thread certainly was not meant to go this way. Tilly I wholly support the festival proper in all its aims, as I am sure that all those above do, the fringe from the outset was and is part of the festival. As stated within the thread the suggestion to run a separate one is for later in the year,

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Kampervan
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 04:05 PM

Hey, I've just found out from Tilley that I'm a subversive. Wow!!!!

I just like singing and listening to singing, (and a bit of twiddly-diddly instrumental as well).

How does that make me a subversive?? I've been to many Beverleys (well in to double figures), and paid for lots of season tickets, some of which have never been used. All I've done is to go to fringe venues.

However, some people think that you shouldn't be able to camp without a season ticket, and if all you want to do is to go to fringe events then you're a parasite on the hard work of the Committee.

So maybe a separate fringe weekend is god way to keep everyone happy?

Or perhaps we could all co-exist peacefully on the basis that we all support each other; that 'folk' doesn't have to be political, and that we can all enjoy a great festival in our own way.

Or am I just the dumbest naif in the world?

K/van

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Les from Hull
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 03:14 PM

syntan

Beverley pubs

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: danensis
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 02:53 PM


Its "Syntan" not "The Syntan"

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Les from Hull
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 08:54 AM

I too would like an explanation of what you mean by 'subterfuge', Tilly.

I've been to the festival for years, too, as a paying punter, and as a festival worker. In recent years I've been more interested in singing and playing, so I've tended to stick to 'fringe' events, although I'll happily attend a concert or a workshop if there's someone I really want to see and hand my money over like a good 'un.

Most festivals organise singarounds and musicians sessions, and either pay for organisers or give them a free ticket. At Beverley we've had the perfectly amicable situation where the festival organisers can leave this sort of thing to people who play and sing in Beverley every week of the year.

This has the further advantage to the festival that it provides extra events throughout the day for season ticket holders to pop into, and attracts extra people to the festival. There's never been any 'subterfuge'.

If your comments were sparked by Oombanjo's posting about a separate fringe weekend, might I point out that separate in this connection means 'different from' or 'unconnected'. This will be discussed in a separate thread after the festival.

I would like to know who these 'wingeing musicians' (I presume you mean wingeing) are. I don't recognise them from the singers and players I meet every week in Beverley, who look forward to and support the Beverley Folk Festival every year.

Les Ward

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 04:17 AM

Peace, harmony amd love to all

R

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: harpmaker
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 04:14 AM

52 weeks of the year there are at least 4 sessions per week orginised by local musicians/singers in Beverley. These are very well attended. Nothing to 'wine' about there then.

I personally have never, never seen Chris Wade or any of her crew attend any of these sessions or get involved in what we do.
C'mon Tilly, smell the bacon!

Sir John the Harp maker of Beverley.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Gedpipes
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 03:59 AM

Fair comments Mick McGarry

John
The landlady of the Woolpack will be delighted to have musicians on Saturday afternoon.
Keep up the good work all of you wingeing people.
Blue skies
Ged

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 03:26 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 03:19 AM

Nicely put Mick, and thanks,
I will pop along to Monks, it's not every session that will accept a chap in a frock playing flamenco on a bugle.
       Blue, the new black!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: ossonflags
Date: 14 Jun 06 - 01:04 AM

Speaking as one of the "wingeing" ones and some one who is running sessions this weekend, I would like to point a couple of things out here "Tilly"

!. "After all the years Chris Wade and her crew have accommodated a bunch of winging musicians at the festival"

I take strong objection to be called a "wingeing" anything,I and the rest of the local musicians contribute to the Beverly and wider Folk scene all year round, not just Folk week So rather than your pal and her crew accomadating us, it would seem to me to be the other way round?

2. John (Ooombanjo) Quotes; "I have had a request from within the local musicians, and one of our local councillors, to test the water re a separate fringe weekend."

All I see here is John openly replying to a legitamate request - one I may say that will be whole heartadly supported by me - and actually doing things to keep music live.

Were is the "subterfuge" and "betrayal" there? Do not forget when the Beverley festival did not run the other year it was people like the "Wingers" and "betrayers" who filled the breach by running the very successfull "Peoples Voice festival".By your comments it would appear that Folk music in the Beverley area is the exclusive preserve of Chris Wade and her crew.

Mick McGarry

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 07:40 PM

Tilly get a grip - -what are you talking about-this is not a rival festival it's an organised fringe which accompanies the festival itself and is mentioned in te festival brochure as MC says @Where's the subtifuge?' kindly remember it's a free world.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 07:15 PM

Have I missed something here ? Where's the subterfuge ?

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: fiddler
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 05:41 PM

I've only been to one but Seconded!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Tilly
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 05:40 PM

After all the years Chris Wade and her crew have accommodated a bunch of winging musicians at the festival this latest subterfuge reads as very unpleasant and undermining for all the work she has put in over the past 23 years and I have been to all 23 festivals and feel betrayed by all of you!

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Graham and Jo
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 05:27 PM

We have heard that the Syntan is available and open to any music makers / singers /visitors that go along from 10am to midnight both Saturday and Sunday. They have mugs of tea, or bring your own booze -there is a supermarket just round the corner.

She has very good accoustics indeed and is an interesting place to perform.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: oombanjo
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 01:00 PM

I've not joined in on the thread for a while, however at last we have reached the time when all the host spaces on the fringe have responded and as two of the locals do not require camping there are two spaces going. I have not heard from murf?? . Pm me if you require one of the spaces. Cheers Oombanjo.
I have had a request from within the local musicians, and one of our local councillors, to test the water re a separate fringe weekend. If you want to respond to this, we will start a new thread after the festival, DON'T forget the Syntan wants to play a continuing part in the festival and could well be a good venue to bring your own wine and have a mudcat gathering. there are flyers around the pubs and site indicating places times of sessions HAVE A GOODUN.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: ossonflags
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 11:29 AM

Your welcome to do a bit of flamenco at the "Monks" Ted

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 13 Jun 06 - 06:04 AM

Anybody going in The Tiger on sunday? Can't get there saturday as I shall be sedately pedalling around Dalby Forest.

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: danensis
Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:29 PM

Am I allowed to bring my Bodhran?

John

Subject: RE: Beverley Folk Festival
From: Daithi
Date: 12 Jun 06 - 06:09 AM

I'll try and make that, then. I'm not able to attend the festival proper, but happen to be in Hull on saturday morning, so thought I'd drift over at lunchtime to Beverley (never been) and see if there were any sessions on. Any more?
Dáithí