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20 Jun 23 - 03:33 AM (#4175010) Subject: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome I hope to make it for at least part of the week. Anyone else going? |
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20 Jun 23 - 05:35 AM (#4175017) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Cottage booked. Ticket bought. Tin whistle polished. |
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20 Jun 23 - 05:58 AM (#4175019) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: r.padgett As usual there will be the official festival with booked guests, the fringe and hopefully folk friendly pubs ~ would be good to know who wants "us" in terms of singers venues; musicians venues and which pubs accept only debit or credit cards and others cash only! no doubt the pint will need a credit card ~ literally This year I will looking to doing the usual walking, weather permitting, playing the 'tina and singing where ever I can! Ray |
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20 Jun 23 - 08:04 AM (#4175029) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome It's all fringe for me nowadays. Just wander round and see where there is noise :-D |
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20 Jun 23 - 08:10 AM (#4175030) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: cujimmy I was at Whitby over the weekend for the Moore and Coast festival. People were singing in the Waiting Room at the Railway Station, a lovely well run Pub, excellent real ales but card only payments, the owner very friendly and folk music friendly too. I was in the Black Horse on Saturday, singing in the back room was excellent, and cash or card can be used paying for drinks. There was an Irish session in the Endeavour, and I believe the Golden Lion has become Folk Friendly, I was in there a few weeks ago. Anyway Im looking forward to coming along once again this year - Ive been over 20 times over the years and never tire of learning and sharing new songs and making new friends. |
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20 Jun 23 - 08:11 AM (#4175031) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome I'm camping BTW so if the weather is bad and you see a bedraggled Gnome - Take pity on him! |
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21 Jun 23 - 03:39 AM (#4175109) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: John MacKenzie Last year I left early and I have decided that was my last WFW. Between the steady reduction in pubs that welcome music and the rapid rise in the price of drinks therein I just find that for me it has lost its spark. I enjoyed my years of stewarding then they changed the format at my regular venue and I did not like the new regime, so I opted out and since then I haven't found a comfortable berth. So sadly, that's it for me, good bye and thanks for all the fish suppers. |
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21 Jun 23 - 01:09 PM (#4175174) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: r.padgett Yes John, the times they are a changing ~ enjoyed your company for many years in the Whitby con club upstairs room and saw some great performers still one or two festivals to see here and there Cheers mate Ray |
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21 Jun 23 - 01:31 PM (#4175179) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome We were regulars all through the 80s and into the o0s as it provided a great family holiday as well as the festival. Now the family are all grown up and we are still regilsr visitors to Whitby although we tend to avoid high summer now because of the cost. I tend to go to the festival for a few days on my own and the rest of the family visit the town as and when. In fact my daughters are there at the mo and having a great time! |
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21 Jun 23 - 01:55 PM (#4175181) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome o0s = 90s |
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22 Jun 23 - 08:08 PM (#4175258) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Guest Aye well - you pays your money and takes your choice - or not. The whole world has changed in the last three years - and not for the better. Just hope the festival can cope with these changes but it is going to be tough. |
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27 Jun 23 - 11:03 AM (#4175642) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Mo the caller Was good to be back last year (and the year before at the 'should we be doing this?' fringe). Always something new to try at Whitby so it's always fresh. |
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27 Jun 23 - 11:21 AM (#4175645) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome I find the Fringe my favourite at most festivals. I am a nutural lurker in dark corners :-D |
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27 Jun 23 - 03:20 PM (#4175669) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Guest not above |
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27 Jun 23 - 03:23 PM (#4175670) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Guest not above - whoops Which nuts do you prefer Dave? And do you have a favourite dark corner? |
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27 Jun 23 - 03:31 PM (#4175671) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome Only nutural nuts and I don't know which corner it is because it's too dark to see! |
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30 Jun 23 - 07:24 PM (#4175895) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Tattie Bogle Hoping to go again with my usual festival buddy. Accommodation booked, but not committed to season tickets yet this time, as some med problems might get in the way. We’re both finding it harder to get around Whitby for different reasons, as anno domini takes its toll on our poor bodies! |
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22 Jul 23 - 08:21 AM (#4177430) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Mo the caller Whitby isn't the easiest to get around. One year they scheduled beginner accordion workshops one each side of the bridge with 10 mins between them (and the bridge closed on the hour). Running uphill with instrument on back, rucksack on front. Fun. |
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22 Jul 23 - 08:29 AM (#4177431) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Jeff Davis said; Too many instruments, too many hills! |
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25 Jul 23 - 12:31 PM (#4177634) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge and too many people for me |
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29 Jul 23 - 03:37 PM (#4177999) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Mo the caller The solution some find to 'too many instruments' is to just carry one each day. Can't play them all at once anyway. |
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01 Aug 23 - 07:40 AM (#4178196) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Mo the caller Programme arrived yesterday. Not long now. |
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01 Aug 23 - 02:00 PM (#4178224) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome I'm getting all excited :-D |
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05 Aug 23 - 06:10 PM (#4178528) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Tattie Bogle Programmes have arrived! Haven't had a chance to go through it all yet though! |
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07 Aug 23 - 10:52 AM (#4178632) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Just so people know. I was instrumental in renaming the Whitby Folk Festival as Whitby Folk WEEK in order to more accurately identify the event and what it was about. Pedants for ever I say. See you lucky ones there. |
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07 Aug 23 - 11:19 AM (#4178637) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST Is there a Glaisdale train this year |
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08 Aug 23 - 08:06 PM (#4178767) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Having organised the last couple that actually happened and seeing that the reason for them not being so this year, ie the Regatta sharing their dates with Folk Week, there seemed little point in drawing people away from the the town. It appears the organisers have put together a full programme of events which seem to cater for most tastes. |
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09 Aug 23 - 03:42 AM (#4178781) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,RJM I am not going. I hope the weather is good and that you all have a good time, its a very enjoyable festival in a lovely setting. Malcolm did a good job, and good to see it is still happening |
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09 Aug 23 - 03:24 PM (#4178853) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Thanks Dick - I think! |
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11 Aug 23 - 01:58 PM (#4178944) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Mo the caller Malcolm. Can't it be a Folk Week and a Folk Festival? Whatever it's called it's the highlight of my year. And I can choose a different strand to concentrate on each time (as well as lots of the same) |
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11 Aug 23 - 02:19 PM (#4178945) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Tattie Bogle I think Sidmouth also changed to Folk Week for a while, but then reverted to Festival. The advantage of calling it Folk WEEK, as Malcolm suggests, is that it identifies the fact that it does last a week and not just a weekend as many other festivals do. And yes, it's a great, er, week! |
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11 Aug 23 - 03:14 PM (#4178956) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey Sidmouth did/does not have other Festivals taking place within the town as far as I am aware. In Whitby there have been oodles over the years. I also doubt if significant numbers of Sidmouth festival customers are attracted to the town at other times of the year. |
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11 Aug 23 - 03:31 PM (#4178958) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Oriel It doesn't. They aren't. |
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11 Aug 23 - 07:56 PM (#4178985) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Tattie Bogle Sidmouth does have a wealth of festivals apart from the folk festival, though possibly different clienteles. Like Whitby, it has a Regatta, then there are also the following: Walking Festival, Literary Festival, Jazz and Blues Festival, Science Festival and Sea Fest, as well as a summer season of plays at the local theatre. And a substantial number of the folk festival followers go down for a mid-year reunion in February. |
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12 Aug 23 - 04:05 AM (#4179010) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome I'm down to 2 nights at Whitby now. See you on Tuesday :-) |
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13 Aug 23 - 01:55 PM (#4179108) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,jim bainbridge I've always enjoyed the actual music & song at Whitby, although a full wek was always too much for me! A great place too for meeting old pals & I applaud the choice of guests without reservation. But I won't be there, despite being invited, because the prospect of shuffling across that bridge, fighting my way through myriads of visitors is just too appalling a prospect, I'm afraid. Have a great time all of you! |
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13 Aug 23 - 02:14 PM (#4179109) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome The bridge is better now Jim. They shut it off to traffic at peak times. But, yea, it's still crowded! |
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13 Aug 23 - 05:08 PM (#4179112) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Tattie Bogle My friend and I will probably spend most of our time avoiding that bridge and the town centre: staying up near the Rifle Club/Conservative Club, which may dictate which workshops, sessions and concerts we go to. If feeling really adventurous, we might just make it to the Spa or Metropole! |
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13 Aug 23 - 05:11 PM (#4179114) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,RJM IF they asked me and paid my expenses, I would be delighted to play there, Mean while I will be doing gigs here, it is one of my favourite festivals |
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14 Aug 23 - 02:52 AM (#4179137) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,RJM I remember Malcolm banning somebody called Chas from the festival. |
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14 Aug 23 - 09:47 AM (#4179158) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: Dave the Gnome That's a shame Tatie. I have been to some nice singarounds in the Black Horse and the Waiting Room. Will probably spend some time in those again next week. |
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14 Aug 23 - 03:15 PM (#4179175) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,RJM The Plough is a great loss. |
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14 Aug 23 - 04:06 PM (#4179180) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: John MacKenzie The Board too. |
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14 Aug 23 - 07:22 PM (#4179195) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,Malcolm Storey I stand corrected Tattie although I was thinking of the people who share the pleasure of the music we primarily enjoy. Most fair size towns have lots of interest groups that put on events for the like minded and that is great. Whitby and the area has had many lasting events that we would probably enjoy and which I have always acknowledged and encouraged. It has also had some super short term and one off events over the years. The area did have a particularly ill famed none-off non-event purporting to further our cause. Dick You have an interesting memory bucket! Chas was not banned from the festival because he was never part of it! He was however taken to task extremely forcefully for riding round the town with a loudspeaker slagging off a local business and claiming to speak for Whitby Folk Week! Fact!! All will be revealed in my upcoming best selling memoires!!! |
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15 Aug 23 - 01:38 AM (#4179209) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 2023 From: GUEST,RJM Hi, Malcolm, do you remeber the Rev ken, falling over while plying his gadget with malt whiskeys, BEFORE YOUR TIME AS ORGANISER I THINK |
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15 Aug 23 - 01:59 AM (#4179210) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: Joe Offer I went to Whitby Folk Week with Dick Greenhaus and Susan Friedman in 2002. I met the Ducks and Kevin McGrath and a number of other Mudcatters there. I got to see Cyril Tawney and Janet Russell and Steve Tilston, and I loved the afternoon sessions at the pub in Robin Hood's Bay. All in all, it was a wonderful experience. |
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15 Aug 23 - 03:35 AM (#4179216) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: r.padgett Yes Father Ken Loveless ~ anglo concertina player of note a character once seen never forgotten and the Plough a meeting place "in the day" for many of the unbelievable "would bees" and veterans of the trad folk scene must have been early 1970s I remember Clive Woolf, and the Scottish veteran trad singer whose name escapes me and the many little pockets of singers in all Plough rooms and upstairs and out into the back yard ~ Tony Wilson and the other banjo player in the Plough back room! Not to mention room for folky families with their children Great pity, but great times Ray |
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15 Aug 23 - 04:10 AM (#4179224) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST,RJM Willie Scott? I think i met you therein about 1974 Ray |
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15 Aug 23 - 09:56 AM (#4179237) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: r.padgett That's him Willie Scott Ray |
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18 Aug 23 - 04:03 AM (#4179381) Subject: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 - From: GUEST So sad ...... husband has caught Covid and so we won't be able to attend our favourite festival and see all our friends. First time we've missed it for about 15 years. Is anyone looking for a last minute booking in a very centrally located apartment for 4 persons (Double & 2 singles). It's called Swing Bridge View for obvious reasons as it is behind the huge polar bear statue overlooking the bridge.We were booked from Fri 18th -Fri 5th August but have had to cancel. It can be booked via VRBO.com and would make an excellent base. The owners are in Canada at the moment but have been very good , replying quickly to our emails. It would be good if it was snapped up by someone attending the folk week. Have fun this week and play and sing loud enough for us to hear it down here in Sidmouth. Kath Parry |
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19 Aug 23 - 04:08 PM (#4179521) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST,Jo-Jo I'm gonna be there from Tuesday - in Endeavour lunchtime doing my fave Shanties with Jim and the other one .... er ... ?? ? See you all there ... ???????????????????? |
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25 Aug 23 - 09:51 AM (#4179918) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: r.padgett I am back accommodation Friday to Friday! Weather ok hills make for a great workout ~ Con club (sorry) decently priced sandwiches and tea/coffee ~ pubs heaving and overpriced, manic sessions (no not me missus) traditional base as ever with entertaining guests etc ~musicians well catered for 2024 is next year ~ hopefully Ray |
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25 Aug 23 - 12:44 PM (#4179933) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: Dave the Gnome A family bereavement sadly cut short my time there but I enjoyed the mega singaround in the Friendship club on Tuesday and the Morris dancing by the arch on Wednesday morning. I would also recommend the Folly Gardens camp site. Lovely spot and close to town. Not much by way of facilities but even, easy pitches and plenty of room. |
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26 Aug 23 - 02:31 AM (#4179978) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: r.padgett Yes the Friendship Club is a large room accessible from Church Street and probably wheelchair friendly ~ popped in one night to see and was a steady night away from the packed pubs with room for an audience Ray |
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27 Aug 23 - 05:21 AM (#4180066) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: cujimmy I thought there were a lot more people here this year, the Rugby Club camp site was full. There were singarounds and sessions in Rifle Club, Friendship club, Station hotel all day till 2am, Fleece till 2am, Endeavour, Black Horse front and back room and no doubt others. I enjoyed them all and enjoyed meeting new people and hearing sharing songs. Glad to see it still going strong and there were younger people in abundance too which is encouraging. |
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27 Aug 23 - 05:21 AM (#4189483) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: cujimmy I thought there were a lot more people here this year, the Rugby Club camp site was full. There were singarounds and sessions in Rifle Club, Friendship club, Station hotel all day till 2am, Fleece till 2am, Endeavour, Black Horse front and back room and no doubt others. I enjoyed them all and enjoyed meeting new people and hearing sharing songs. Glad to see it still going strong and there were younger people in abundance too which is encouraging. |
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27 Aug 23 - 11:39 AM (#4189484) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: Red and White Rabbit Had a great week at Whitby again - thanks to all those who came to the whistle workshops and family clog we enjoyed teaching you. Hope to see you again next year! |
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27 Aug 23 - 11:39 AM (#4180085) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: Red and White Rabbit Had a great week at Whitby again - thanks to all those who came to the whistle workshops and family clog we enjoyed teaching you. Hope to see you again next year! |
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28 Aug 23 - 07:37 AM (#4180108) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Red and White Rabbit - nice to see you too, May and Sue. Hope you have a quiet week to recover! |
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28 Aug 23 - 07:37 AM (#4189481) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST,henryp Red and White Rabbit - nice to see you too, May and Sue. Hope you have a quiet week to recover! |
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28 Aug 23 - 11:31 AM (#4189482) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST so much to enjoy |
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28 Aug 23 - 11:31 AM (#4180136) Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Festival 19-25 August 2023 From: GUEST so much to enjoy |