mmm Cambridge is probably the least folky festival we go to. My problem with the Cambridge music is that it's far too Radio 2 friendly; lots of music from which the raw edges have been chipped off.
Ely FF is normaly the weekend after T&M's barbie, but this year it's the same weekend! So we are going to the festival but coming over to the barbie sometime on Saturday pm (which is where the plan has us collecting Meriol for a night's camping).
It is a small trad festival; one big tent (seating about 1000), one smaller tent (dance stage, workshops, or seating for a few hundred), one tiny tent (50 for small acts or singaround), one beer tent with session in the corner, one outdoor dance stage (morris displays), half a dozen each craft stalls and food tents, one kids area -- all of that on a football field. In addition there's a pile of morris in town on the Saturday. The first time I went I thought 'gosh, there *is* a lot of morris at this festival...' but I quite like it now. I suspect you would find it all rather unreconstructed.
I like Ely FF because it's on a football field so there is a pavilion with *hot showers and flush toilets*, and the whole site is very compact.
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Date: 2007-06-25 03:10 pm (UTC)Ely FF is normaly the weekend after T&M's barbie, but this year it's the same weekend! So we are going to the festival but coming over to the barbie sometime on Saturday pm (which is where the plan has us collecting Meriol for a night's camping).
It is a small trad festival; one big tent (seating about 1000), one smaller tent (dance stage, workshops, or seating for a few hundred), one tiny tent (50 for small acts or singaround), one beer tent with session in the corner, one outdoor dance stage (morris displays), half a dozen each craft stalls and food tents, one kids area -- all of that on a football field. In addition there's a pile of morris in town on the Saturday. The first time I went I thought 'gosh, there *is* a lot of morris at this festival...' but I quite like it now. I suspect you would find it all rather unreconstructed.
I like Ely FF because it's on a football field so there is a pavilion with *hot showers and flush toilets*, and the whole site is very compact.