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27 Mar 01 - 04:51 AM (#426368) Subject: cancelled festivals From: JudeL Foot & mouth has another victim - folk festivals - Crediton folk weekend,Bridstow's the fox and hounds, Miskin's Easter Festival and the National have all been cancelled. The latest from Chippenham's organisers are that they will still be going ahead with theirs. If this keeps up next year we'll be looking for new venues for the smaller festivals as some of the more rural pubs used are losing so much trade that they are warning us that they may go out of business before the outbreak is over. |
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27 Mar 01 - 07:41 AM (#426418) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Hawker Yeah, terrible! We were going to Crediton this weekend, as this is cancelled, we are going to West Somerset Railway Gala weekend, staying at Blue Anchor I think, for the weekend, we may make music whilst there! Lucy |
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27 Mar 01 - 08:00 AM (#426427) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: John J Isn't there a maritime festival on somewhere soon? Hopefully there won't be any sea-going sheep around. Does anyone know when & where it is? John |
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27 Mar 01 - 11:41 AM (#426589) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red Lancaster Maritime Festival - Easter week end. As a town Festival it is still on at present. I doubt I will be there but one of my songs will. Roy Palmer asked for a copy of the "Knittershanty" to illustrate the modern culture. Either that or a warning how not to corrupt the honest tradition of Shantying. (words & MP3 now available on cresby.com) Either way I am mighty proud to be asked, by a folklorist of note. Festivals Fox & Hounds in Bridestow is definitely OFF. Upton upon Severn still ON. Alcester still ON. I fully expect Warwick to be ON, and Bridgnorth I am hoping, as it too is a town festival. |
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27 Mar 01 - 11:45 AM (#426594) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red John J Sailing Sheeps? there's a song idea there. |
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27 Mar 01 - 12:19 PM (#426617) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: John J Mr Red: where is the maritime festival held? I don't know about sailing sheeps, but I've got a sailing dinghy. Is that the same? |
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27 Mar 01 - 12:31 PM (#426631) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: GUEST,TS The National will be held in smaller form at Cecil Sharp House with a lot of the artists that were booked still appearing there. |
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27 Mar 01 - 01:54 PM (#426737) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: GUEST,Willa JohnJ held in Lancaster; contact David Wright, Lancaster Tourism Service, 29 Castle Hill, lancaster, tel. 01524 32878 Try the froots website for info on festivals. froots.demon.co.uk |
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28 Mar 01 - 03:46 AM (#427317) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: JudeL Tell me more of this west sumerset railway gala Where , What, & is there any "indoor camping"! |
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28 Mar 01 - 10:56 AM (#427539) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red John J Based on the museum but motre I cannot say. TIC is the best place to ask. It is run by the council. No camping as far as I know (In or out of doors). |
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28 Mar 01 - 12:59 PM (#427685) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Hawker There is a camp site at Blue Anchor - look on the West Somerset Railway website - www.wsr.org.uk sorry, haven't yet looked up how to do blue clicky things! Lucy |
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28 Mar 01 - 05:26 PM (#427898) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red Tredegar are having a committee meeting on "whether" Fri. Mrs Lemon reports Lichfield is still ON. And is looking for festivals still on that she can sell her real lemonade at. Sam of somersfolklife.org.uk has heard that Gower is going ahead. Fest Noz were looking for free publicity in Sam's Festival Directory so I assume it is on. |
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29 Mar 01 - 08:13 AM (#428270) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler There's a piece on the BBC's webpages under Entertainment listing those that are on or off but it concentrates on the biggies like Reading,rather than small folkie events. RtS |
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29 Mar 01 - 11:09 AM (#428414) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: GUEST Thanks for the info re: anchor camping - but I have to admit to only being a fairweather camper - last time I tried outdoor camping this early in the year it was so cold that I felt like bits of me were about to drop off with frostbite! Brrrrr.. Jude |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:47 PM (#428658) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red Beverley have sent out the publicity this week and as a town festival I expect they are still ON. |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:52 PM (#428663) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Hawker Jude, I used to be the same, but my husband bought me a camper with a heater in it so I am nice and snug now, sessions in Hawkers Hut whenever, wherever.....or as Deni will confirm, under the awning, with Burras Bar in full flow! Lucy |
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29 Mar 01 - 03:53 PM (#428665) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Tig When I last heard Chester is still on but at the moment has a restriction on the footpath through the camping field so is still dubious. Festival at the Edge is leaving the decision until the end of May but is still on at the moment. |
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30 Mar 01 - 03:55 AM (#429040) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: JudeL Yes hawker, Hic, Hic.. alcohol & "company" can make things a lot warmer - in many ways - but on the whole I think I'll give this one a miss,its a bit far to go when singing is only an afterthought, some how I think the only "steamy" thing I'll be getting close to this weekend is either a book or an iron! |
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30 Mar 01 - 04:19 AM (#429048) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Lianagan Would that be before or after "Dipping the Sheep" ? :-) |
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30 Mar 01 - 04:23 AM (#429051) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler and this from today's London Times: Festivals
Summertime, and living it up isn't easy
BY ADAM SHERWIN Star tantrums, overcrowding, queues for the loos... there's very little the experienced promoter can't cope with. But foot-and-mouth? Thats another story Ask the average nose-studded indie kid about the plight of farmers, and the response would normally be one of surly disinterest. But now the foot-and-mouth epidemic is threatening to wipe out this summer's crop of music festivals and even Marilyn Manson fans are looking anxiously at access restrictions and MAFF slaughter targets. The three-day Bishopstock blues festival in Devon, one of the fastest-growing events in Britain, where Ray Charles was due to headline in May, has become the first major music show to announce a postponement. The 50,000 dance fans due to attend the Homelands event in Winchester, Hampshire, where Pulp and Orbital are scheduled to appear, may be disappointed. With the site for the festival on agricultural land adjacent to grazing fields, Winchester City Council is reviewing its decision to grant a licence following representations from farmers. Meetings have taken place regarding the V2001 music festivals at Hylands Park, Chelmsford, and Weston Park, Staffordshire, where bills are currently being finalised. Meanwhile, the promoters of the Reading and Leeds festivals insist that their concerts will continue as normal. Doubts have also been raised over Scotland's T in the Park in Kinross and the Gatecrasher Sound System at the Turweston Aerodrome in Northamptonshire in June, featuring Craig David. All this means that the familiar summer sight of mud-clad festivalgoers with steadily worsening hygiene problems could be put on hold by a disease that the music industry knows little about and understands even less. Million pound losses through cancellations and possible bankruptcy ride on the Government's ability to tackle the epidemic. In Devon, where the disease has hit hard, there was little prospect that the fifth Bishopstock blues festival would escape unscathed. The festival is held at Bishop's Court Palace, near Exeter, and the 6,000 ticket-holders have been told that the August Bank Holiday is the proposed new date. "We have neighbouring farmers and we are sympathetic," says John Martin, Bishopstock's production manager. "It was a difficult decision but we could not have the vehicular access to hold the show. If we have to disinfect every fan to get the show on in August, we will do that." But Martin must now hope that a painstakingly assembled bill, which includes Ray Charles, Buddy Guy and Taj Mahal, will still be available for August. Promoters have spent months luring the top names for the fiercely competitive festival season and are loath to see their line-up of star names collapse. With 50,000 tickets already sold at £46 each for the Homelands festival in Winchester, the organisers would face serious losses through cancellation. In Winchester, Fred Masters, head of the city council's licensing committee, has other considerations regarding a major dance festival. "It's a cause for concern, especially because Homelands could, in effect, cause an outbreak (of foot-and-mouth)," he says. "As the situation stands, I'd expect the local landowning farmer to be strung from the nearest tree if this event goes ahead." The Mean Fiddler group, organisers of Homelands, sees it differently. "The particular location of the car parks and event fields have not had cattle or animals on for more than five months," says a spokesman. "Access is from a major road which is unlikely to be closed and all cars will go through a disinfecting process. The farmer himself has a quiet confidence that his precautions and the government actions will result in the festival taking place." At Chelmsford Borough Council, the view is that the V2001 shows, which are rumoured to have signed up The Who and R.E.M. this year, should go ahead although "dogs must be kept on leads". This could be a challenge for fans of the crusty rockers the Levellers, who can generally be found attached to a mangy canine. With bad timing, the Brighton-based anarcho-band had booked a June tour of English forests which is now under threat. Ultimately, MAFF has the power to order local authorities to close the site of a concert at any given time, if the ministry feels that there is an undue risk of spreading foot-and-mouth. The most relieved man in the music industry this summer is Michael Eavis, the dairy farmer whose 400-acre site plays host to the Glastonbury festival. He had, fortunately as it now turns out, already cancelled this year's festival after he was denied a local council safety certificate. "I would definitely have had to cancel because of foot-and-mouth and that would have cost me a million pounds," says Eavis, whose Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, where 350 cows are currently producing 9,500 litres of milk each day, is only 15 miles away from reported cases of foot-and-mouth. "It is irresponsible to invite people from all over the country when there is a danger they could bring the disease." But Eavis believes that the outbreak could create a new understanding between urban music fans and their rural neighbours. "There has been a suspicion about farmers and maybe we don't always help ourselves. But the kids love to look at the animals milking when they come here. We need to educate each other a little bit." To that end, Eavis is currently planning Britain's first Farm Aid concert to help to alleviate the current distress. "I am looking at a September date, after the outbreak has died down, at the Royal Bath and West Showground, near Shepton Mallet," he says. "I am asking the leading performers who would have performed at Glastonbury to help us. It will be to raise awareness as much as fund-raising." Eavis is hoping that R.E.M. and the veteran Canadian rocker Neil Young will perform. Radiohead are also a possibility but he hopes to counter some reluctance among "cool" British groups to help farmers. If the summer festivals are wiped out, music fans may have to travel abroad to get their fill of baggy-trousered metal acts and over-priced burgers. Travel companies are offering trips to major continental rock festivals, including the Roskilde event in Denmark, where security arrangements have been stepped up after nine fans were killed in a stampede last year. The tragedy has not prevented Guns N' Roses, Beck and Bob Dylan from signing up.
There could, however, be a benefit from foot-and-mouth to the wider community. The thousands of filthy fans looking forward to a weekend's sliding in mud will be thoroughly disinfected by the end of the summer. Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. |
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01 Apr 01 - 12:49 PM (#430597) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Mr Red Mrs Lemon is in touch with many organisers and reports these festivals and their stauts. Folk on the Farm in Wolverhampton (normally June) has been cancelled, no real surprise there. Baggerage (Wolverhampton again) August is still ON but they are still reading the situation. Burntwood is still on as it is based on school grounds. Upton is still keeping an eye on the situation but the guy in charge of the commercial stalls is taking the stallholders' deposits. The same committe member is in charge of stalls at Alcester (June 23 - 25) and reports a similar situation there. |
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02 Apr 01 - 06:54 AM (#431063) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Ella who is Sooze Miskin at Easter has been cancelled... Have just had an email from Andy Jackson... So has Tredegar Festival been cancelled, both casualities of Foot and Mouth. Regards Ella http://homepages.tesco.net/~andy.jackson/miskinfolk/ (miskin folk web site) |
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02 Apr 01 - 06:58 AM (#431065) Subject: RE: BS: cancelled festivals From: Ella who is Sooze Just seen this link... which has a link and information on all up and coming festivals... Can't do the clickety thing sorry folks... http://www.mrscasey.co.uk/afo/afopress.html others include... Bishopstock, and Fox and HOunds festival.. But have a look Ella |