Cheltenham Folk Festival
Annually in Cheltenham.
The 2008 Festival was my first Folk Festival.
What a nice surprise. Folk isn't normally my kind of music, but I had a really good time.
It's BIG - the Town Hall and other venues were really busy, lots of the acts did two sets to meet demand.
I spoke with quite a few of the audience and people had come from all over the country. This is a national event, and it's on our doorstep.
Go in 2009.
These guys are really funny and very clever. Well worth seeing.
Rondo a la Turk(ey)
Elsey's Waltz
Hymn
Good singer songwriter.
Wallbreaker
People, they get you down
The Brisk Young Widow
Flash Hand
They are a really nice duo with clear cheerful music.
Bouree
The Unfortunate Tailor
Skies Turn Grey (Great song about the Foot and Mouth disaster).
Turpins Blade
Party Games
Migrating Bird
Long Vacation
Traditional tunes
On Board the Man O'War (somd about the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Lord Nelson)
Ricky - northern comedy song about a wayward daughter, her lover, a nagging wife, put upon husband and a basket on a rope (all the better for climbing in through a girls bedroom window).
Traditional
Big Rock Candy Mountain
Request Stop (Terminus)
Let the mystery be / Pie in the Sky
Old England
Maz O'Connor - Last of the Great Whales. Last Orders provide the music.
Waiting for Janet
Taking the Tent Down
Scots of the Riverina (Henry Lawson)
Corny Bill (Henry Lawson)
A Jig
Nairns River Banks
Outside Tailors Wine Bar, Cambray Place.
Wessex Morris
Wessex Morris
Rag Morris
Rag Morris
Arcadian Driftwood (cover of classic)
The Warlike Lads of Russia
Devils Right Hand
Weathercock
Rolling down to Maui
Friars Britches
The Rambling Beauty