How many folk festivals in Uk in a year

Subject: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:43 PM

Has anybody ever been to all the festivals or been to most in a year?



Scooby

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:49 PM

Hi Scooby! No-one can get to all of them, at least not in the same year anyway. It's hard enough to choose between all the ones that clash!! We get to quite a few I reckon - a quick count of this years diary shows 26 with 3 still to go before Christmas. Boy am I knackered.....

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 05:41 PM

there are more than 300 folk festivals in the UK each year - good luck!

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:33 PM

My bank manager would have a fit!

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 10:40 PM

One to screw it in.

Everybody else to reminisce about how good the old ones were!

Art

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 05:10 AM

Ruth there must be more than 300 in a year.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Carol
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 05:57 AM

There's at lest 300 in England, probably more because there are many flourishing 'mini festivals', really singers weekends and probably as many again in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Even as a 'person of leisure' these days it would probably take me about 6 years to get to all the English ones, as some weekends there are 6 to choose from plus I would also need a big Lottery win - then I could organise 'singers festivals' whenever I wanted and also start up an Old Folkies Retirement Village!

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: treewind
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:10 AM

"Old Folkies Retirement Village!"
Yay! count me in!

The fRoots web site has a pretty comprehensive list of festivals, if you want to know where and when they are. You have to decide what counts as folk, of course.

Anahata

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:16 AM

Thanks Anahata.I think it would be good a folky retirement village too.



Scooby.

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:40 AM

"Ruth there must be more than 300 in a year."

Erm, isn't that what I said?

I remember the exact figure being quoted by Mike Harding a couple of years ago, and being reiterated last year by Steve Heap at the Association of Festival Organisers conference. Though I can't recall the exact figure, I remember thinking at the time that Antigua claims to have 365 beaches - one for every day of the year - while England has a folk festival for every day of the year!

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 06:47 AM

I did not mean to offend your calculations.


Scooby.

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 04:03 PM

Nice one Carol. I was thinking about a folk village the other day. They have villages for golfers who want to live on a golf course. For what ever reason. So a bunch of cottages and some oldie woldie pubs selling 6x with great big roaring fires and folk clubs and a great big wall around it all to keep all the muggles out. Great.

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: bubblyrat
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:51 AM

Fiddler"s Green, sounds like !! Of course, there IS a way to get to such a place !! ( Be Good ! ).

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: skipy
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 11:13 AM

In the mid 80s Kate & I used To do 35! That often meant doing 2 in a single weekend!
We did this to publicise our own festival.
Skipy

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 12:54 PM

Sheer madness Dave, hope you managed to enjoy them all!

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: skipy
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 01:06 PM

I di, Kate drove 1000 of miles, but we wanted to put Stanford in the Vale on the map
Skipy

Subject: RE: How many folk festivals in Uk in a year
From: lilly
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 03:17 PM

Be good / Bubbleyrat ?!! wot's that mean ?