Ashara wrote >I'm aiming for the Cambridge Folk Festival, which is August 1-4. >(I would say "we're" aiming for it, but the truth is, Sal will be going >there kicking and screaming.) LOL!!
Buy him a 'boater', put him in a 'punt' and let him drift off downstream on the River Cam, while you get down to some serious folking. The Cambridge Festival Box Office opens on 1st May (and usually sells out really quickly) - I'll remind you around that time - I think you can reserve tickets online at http://www.cam-folkfest.co.uk/ - you can sign up for their advance information mailing list. They haven't announced who'll be playing this year yet but I'll let you know as soon as I get word. >The other thing I really want to do is go down to the Cornwall, >Devon, Newquay area. Do any of you have ideas of what else >we should see and do? The Sidmouth Folk Festival in the East Devon seaside town runs until 9th August (buy Sal a Sowester and set him adrift on a fishing boat in the English Channel) - this year they have a few of your faves, I see, including Martin Carthy (in concert with Martin Simpson), Kate Rusby (with her hubby John McCusker and friends), Ashley Hutchings and friends, Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel (brilliant) and Cara Dillon (have you heard her album yet? -I think you'd really love it). See http://www.sidmouthfestival.com/ for details. Then you could wizz back up to the Cropredy Festival near Banbury in Oxfordshire (buy Sal a "Cock Horse' and let him ride it to Banbury Cross) while you see Richard Thompson and the 35th Anniversay reunion of Fairport Convention featuring Iain Matthews, Ashley Hutchings, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Vikki Clayton & Gerry Conway on 9th and 10th August, plus Eddi Reader, wonderful US banjo player Alison Brown and others -see http://www.folkcorp.co.uk/woodworm/crop2002.htm And, of course, there has to be a mini-Jonifest somewhere in between (where Sal can model his boater, sowester and cock horse!!) All the best PaulC
