Exmoor Folk Festival May 11th - 13th 2007 is small and intimate

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Posted by sebi123 on Jun-17-2009 07:31:

Exmoor Folk Festival May 11th - 13th 2007 is small and intimate

Exmoor Folk Festival is advertised as 'a small and intimate festival which is enormous fun'. Featured acts have a strong West Country flavour with the Dambuskers from Appledore, Tony Beard (the 'Wag from Widecombe'), Jankie Fardal (just down the road in Williton), Redwing and the Devon band Parcel of Rogues.

The weekend kicks off on the Friday evening at 7.30pm with a Barn Dance in the Brendon Village Hall featuring Redwing and Appalachian dancer (bring own bottle and glass but refreshments are available). Also that evening, the Parcel of Rogues are performing at the Staghunters at 9pm and Stripey Howling Hancock, busker extraordinaire, is at the Rockford Inn.

On the Saturday lunchtime, the renowned local musician and singer Martin Babb is hosting a joining in session at the Staghunters Hotel which I'm sure will be extremely popular (well I'll be there anyway).

There are workshops, square dancing (learn), story telling for young people, Punch and Judy and so on throughout the weekend.

I phoned the Millslade Country Guest House to book camping (next to the river, fires and dogs ok) and they said not to worry about booking as it was all very informal - just turn up.

Now that's my kind of folk music festival :-)