Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007

Subject: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 04:37 PM

Hi there

This years Holmfirth Festival of Folk will be held on 11th, 12th, and 13th May 2007.
This is only about three months away so I thought I would start this thread so that you can put it into your spring and summer folk schedules.

There will be lots going on again, including concerts by Chumbawamba,The John Richards Band, Kate Bramley, Emily Druce, Gordon Tyrrall,Brian Peters,The Red Parrots and many many more.
Workshops for all ages, a family Ceilidh led by the Good Egg Band and lots of Morris sides (including the famous Britannia Coconut Dancers from Bacup) are all adding to this great weekend of talent and fun.

Holmfirth,heart of Last of the Summer Wine Country, will also be vibrant and entertaining with the usual lively musician sessions and sing-arounds found in the many pubs and hotels etc throughout the weekend.
Local and nearly local bands; OLd Man Pie, The Travelling Billberets and Free Sandwiches will doing their stuff and The Shellback Chorus will be filling the streets and venues with their powerful harmonies.

This is a real village festival amongst some of the most stunning scenery of the Yorkshire Pennines. The fact that it is village based means that everything (including camping) is only a short stroll away.
The abundance of excellent pubs,clubs,hotels,restaurants,take-aways, shops, B&Bs, and of course the festival concert venues etc makes this a very convenient, convivial and easy going festival with a really great friendly atmosphere.

For more details please note:

Email: [e-mail]

Web: www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk

Phone: Tourist Information Office 01484 222444

To join the festival team contact Jenny on 01484 687319

P.S if anyone can help with the blue clickerty stuff to provide direct access from this thread to the Web site etc then please assist.

Many thanks

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 04:49 PM

Anything for a great festival Click here!!!!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 05:02 PM

Many thanks Tyke. My knight in shining armour you!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 12:30 PM

refish

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:01 PM

If anyone is interested in stewarding at the festival please let Jenny know on 01484 687319.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 04:25 AM

I'[m told that the tickets for Chumbawamba are now on sale for the bargain price of £15 at the Tourist Information Office.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 06:32 AM

Chumbawamba

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 06:40 AM

I don't want to Fade Away

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 06:05 PM

Tyke, what is it with you and these blue sticky things?
I've just clicked and discovered I do like Chumbawamba after all - now where will I go on Saturday night? I'm promised to Jake but I might have to go to see Chumbawamba. Ah woe is me.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 08:36 PM

The Bigger The Bull ;-)

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 08:50 PM

Craig; Morgan; Robson

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 09:29 PM

Refyrish Dyslexia rules KO!
But only if you have Broadband.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 09:41 AM

You are a caution Tyke!
Are we paying you for all this publicity?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 11:05 AM

Just your usual smile Cath.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 10:57 AM

Thanks Cath and Tyke for your contributions. Is there anything else you would like to add about the festival on 11, 12,13 May 2007?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: stallion
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:17 PM

Oh Cath I thought ..........ah well..........

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:35 PM

Yes Stallion, you thought . . . . ?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:38 PM

Forgot to mention we have branched out into catering!
We have taken over the bacon buttie stall at the Farmers' Market in Holmfirth on the 3rd Sunday of the month - next one next Sunday.
I'm told the butties are excellent and very reasonable in price but you can also pick up information and offer your help.
Not bad for a committee with at least 3 veggies on it.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: stallion
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 02:56 PM

I thought you were skipping chumblies forthe animules!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:59 PM

What?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: stallion
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 05:22 PM

Oh never mind me I must be having a "senior" moment......life gets very complicated!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 08:40 PM

This is the best Blue Clicky thing I can do this time Cath Food

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 04:05 AM

Thank you Tyke but I will never know.
I'm one of those superior creatures who use a Mac and it doesn't want to open for me!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 06:25 AM

Will there be any catering on the campsite Cath - e.g a 'Moor and Coast' set up?   And,if not, will there be a marquee set up for singers/musicians when they return to the campsite at the end of the day?
Chris

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 06:30 AM

Also could you please confirm that the campsite will be the one used last year which is only a short stroll into the heart of Holmfirth -and not the one used in previous years which was out in blue yonder.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:39 AM

Yes Soldier Boy it will be the same place as last year in the care of the local scouts.
We did have long discussions about catering in October and the outcome was that we should not provide food as local businesses were being asked to support the festival financially and therefore it was only fair to give them the business.
The scouts will have a marquee and are happy to serve tea, coffee and cocoa until 3.00 and it will be available for those who wish to sing or play when they returned from a hard day's folking.
Hope that answers the questions.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: r.padgett
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 11:23 AM

3am I take it Cath on Fri/Sat am and Sat/Sun am?

There was a local cafe which opened early in the morning too not far from the White Hart for breakfasts

Ray

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:26 PM

Thanks Cath and Ray.
That was a great campsite at Sands last year. Bags of room and very close to the centre.
Very glad to hear that there will be a marquee for folk to chill out in after a hard days' folking but I have the same question as Ray, are the poor scouts serving tea & coffee etc till 3.00am in the morning or 3.00pm in the afternoon? And will this service be available on Fri/Sat am and Sat/Sun am (presuming they do finish at 3.00 am)?
Great to get the scouts involved, bless 'em, but who is going to supply the matches to keep their eyes open all night?
Sorry! Questions, questions,questions!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 12:32 PM

Yes they have volunteered to do until 3.00 am, Friday night and Saturday night. It was their idea!

The Corner Cafe opened early for bacon butties etc. and it's an easy walk past the cricket pitch, the foundary and into Bridge Lane then either right and past the Co-op or up to Station Road and right down into the town. All in all no more than a 10 minute gentle stroll.

Anything else boys?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 03:59 PM

Yes Cath. Are you still interested in doing festival badges?
If so, do you have this covered or do you want me to have a look at organising this with my badge making contacts?
P.S Ain't our scouts wonderful.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 05:35 PM

I'd think it would be better to keep bumping this thread nearer the date - otherwise you are going to run out of things to say.

At the moment you are giving the impresssion that you can only communicate through Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 10:47 PM

WE ARE only communicating through Mudcat ...doooh!
And how does one "keep bumping this thread nearer the date". What do you mean Guest?
But I do agree that we are running out of things to say as is evident in the short inputs and too few people contributing to this thread. So come on people join in and have your say.
Last year this thread ran for over five months before the actual festival and had brilliant contributions from loads of Mudcatters. Where are you now?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:52 AM

Thank you Guest for helping to promote this years Holmfirth Festival of Folk will be held on 11th, 12th, and 13th May 2007 with you negative comments. A great ploy to enrage the less astute into contributing to this thread by taking the opportunity to call you a sad person who would rather complain than appreciate all the hard work that goes into running any festival. But I'm not going to say that all I am going to ask is will you be wanting Tomato Sauce on your bacon buttie? You know the one you can buy when you visit Holmfirth on the 3rd Sunday in the month. You know the ones that Holmfirth Hard Working Volunteers are making to raise funds for the festival. IT'S THIS SUNDAY!

Oh and you know you forgot to leave your name as a volunteer Cash Collector during the festival. Or do you think the money should be collected the weekend after the Festival.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 08:27 PM

Tyke, is GUEST the same 'Guest' I have come across before who flits from thread to thread infecting them with his/her evil bile and bad persona?
If so, this person is a sad and sick individual who is a coward to hide behind no name and is best ignored so they will eventually go elsewhere.
Chris

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 10:37 PM

Well Soldier boy I myself as a Guest visiting Holmfirth at whatever time of the year have always been made to feel welcome. This is especially true during the Holmfirth Folk Festival Weekend. I'm sure that would be the wish of most of the people who are Mudcatter's to make Guests and anyone who contributes to any towards thread welcome. As they are interested like myself in helping to promote that thing we call "Folk". Inevitably there are people whose glass is always viewed as half empty by themselves. Now the best cure for this is for them to visit Holmfirth Festival of Folk I know it and you know it. We can but try and convince them of the warm Yorkshire welcome that they will receive when and if they come along.

I not going to mention any names but last year one Folky was so keen to return to The Holmfirth Festival of Folk he arrived the Weekend Before! He did not discover his mistake till he rang up his friends to ask which Pub they were in. When they said "The Fleece" he said, "which one is that" and they explained that it was between the Endeavour and the Middle Earth. He said well let's not mention what he said. Just let it be know that this is a man who's views his glass as if not Half Full it's Full. I can report that he did eventually get over to Whitby's Moor and Coast Festival, which is on the Bank Holiday Weekend and he was back in Holmfirth the Weekend after for your Festival. I'm not sure if he will make Holmfirth Festival of Folk this year however his many friends have promised to attach a Luggage Label to him with the Postal address of the Nook. So, should he make it to the Moore and Coast Festival he will then be re-addressed so that he will be returned automatically to one of his favourite Folk Festivals in Holmfirth.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 04:27 PM

But I do agree that we are running out of things to say as is evident in the short inputs and too few people contributing to this thread.

yep........

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 07:34 PM

Well you're keeping it going GUEST. Well done!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 04:22 AM

OK so what can I say that hasn't been said already?

Excuse me if I start with a repeat - tickets for Chumbawamba on Saturday night are on sale at Holmfirth Tourist Information Office. The gig will start about 8.30 and there will be two support acts, one at the very start and one after the interval.

Tickets are on sale for the John Richards Band at CragRats on Saturday afternoon. I haven't seen them live but the pedigree is excellent and the CD is great - I was listening to it only yesterday in the car.

The Red Parrots are doing the Saturday ceilidh again by popular request and tickets are on sale for that.

Everything else is FREE but be prepared to throw notes and coins into the bucket collections.

The Jake Thackray Experience are back, again by popular request, and will take over the big room at the Old Bridge on Saturday night.

We've got workshops on voice, harmony, pipes, dance and most probably knitting! And lots more still to be finalised.

The kids stuff is Bread and Butter Theatre with a new Show as they were so brilliant last year.

There are so many dance sides that we will have to close all of the roads in Holmfirh and not just Hollowgate!

The flyers are out and should be appearing around the place, the campsite can be booked and the programme is planned to be out for April 28th.

Is that enough to be going on with? I could go on at great length about all the things that are happening but I suppose I had better save some to rescue this thread from oblivion occasionally!

The web site is being kept up to date and can be found on www.holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk and I'm sure Tyke can make me a clicky for that!

Right - now to get on with making a couple of posters for Sunday's Farmers' Market Bacon Buttie Stall.

Does it never end?

Oh and I nearly forgot - Sheila from the Nook had a little boy last week and both are doing well.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 09:04 AM

Here you go Cath http://holmfirthfestivaloffolk.co.uk/ Oh I might be off line for a time as I'm changing over to a new computer, which is running on new Windows Vista operating system. Although my Glass is Half Full let's just say, "I'm going outside and I maybe gone sometime"

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Black Diamond
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 10:19 AM

emm .. scuse me ... Cath
I dont want to upset anybody here ...... buuuuuut ... on the website you have Rattlejack coming, and emmmmmmm ..... we are actually Rattlejag (jag being olde english for lad)
Lin

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM

No problem and no upset - after all none of us are perfect!
I'll pass it on to Alan our web person and Carol and Duggs our dance people who passed the information to Alan in the first place.
Thanks for letting us know.
Cath

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 12:22 PM

I'm back

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 04:55 PM

thanks Cath
looking forward to coming
Lin

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 08:44 PM

Cath. Not mentioned so far I think can you confirm that the main venue for the concerts etc will be the Holmfirth Civic hall and not the Picturedome that was used last year.
Also, in light of Wetherspoons being refused permission to buy the Picturedome do you think it is likely that Peter will be forced to put on gigs to raise revenue to keep the place going and might this have some impact on the Holmfirth Festival of Folk in a negative or positive way?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Cath
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 06:13 AM

The Civic Hall is the venue for Saturday night's Chumbawamba gig and the Schools' showcase on Saturday lunchtime. There will be a concert featuring the 'Emerging Artists' in between.

CragRats is happening on Saturday afternoon with the John Richards Band. Other concerts will be in the Old Bridge. Bands will be on at the White Hart on Friday and Saturday nights - The Travelling Billberets and Old Man Pie and a late edition to the programme is Carmichael at the Y Bar at the bottom of Dunford Road on Friday night.

Nearly all the other pubs will have something happening but it still has to be finalised who will be where and when and if I put it all on here there will be no need to buy a programme!!

Peter was already expecting that he would still be at the Picturedrome in May no matter what the decision of the planners and has booked in some events. I can't for the life of me remember who but suffice it to say they are not folk so as far as I am concerned it will just add to the variety! Let's just say that what happens there isn't part of our programme.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 11:42 AM

It has to be said that Peter worked his socks off Last Year. He was up at the crack of Dawn takeing down the fencing on the Campsite.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 12:38 PM

I fully agree Tyke. Peter did a brilliant job last year and if it had'nt been for the Picturdome and the excellent folk artists and gigs he put on there there would not have been the opportunity to continue the festival under new organisers and the new banner of 'Holmfirth Festival of Folk'.

This year it looks like Carol has excelled herself and has now organised something like 25 Morris sides over the weekend.
This will add fantastic colour and atmosphere on the streets on Sat 12 and Sun 13 May.
Many of these sides this year (including the world famous 'Brittania Coconut Dancers from Bacup') are coming from further afield, infact from all over the country. This means that the camp site this year will be much busier and they will add to the throngs of people drinking,singing,playing and drinking in the pubs and of course attending the concerts and workshops etc.
It is a fantastic achievement to get so many sides involved and it also shows how popular this festival is and how it is going from strength to strength.

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: r.padgett
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 03:09 PM

Sounds absolutely great!!

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 03:48 PM

That sounds like more than a bit of tongue in cheek Ray. What's up?

Subject: RE: Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2007
From: r.padgett
Date: 18 Feb 07 - 12:41 PM

Nope take the comment at its face value

It does sound great to me!!

Ray