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Folk Weekend 2008

Notes from the Open Meeting

Around a dozen supporters joined myself and the Black Swan Inn landlord at last week’s Open Meeting, with other people sending in comments by e-mail.

The general mood was very positive and we agreed that next year we will expand to a two day event, over Saturday and Sunday. After five years of steady growth, the present one-day format has reached full capacity in the time and space available. A two day event should give us leeway to have an equally enjoyable but slightly less frenetic celebration of the local folk scene. We must at least give it a try – if it doesn’t work out we can always go back to Saturday only in 2009!

The other major decision was to switch to a slightly late date in 2008, 31st May and 1st June, the weekend after the late May Bank Holiday weekend. Opinion was more divided on this one, and there are certainly arguments both ways, but on balance the meeting favoured the later date.

Put it in your diaries NOW!!

Open Meeting Invitation

I have provisionally booked the Oak Room at the Black Swan for an Open Meeting on the evening of Wednesday 17 October, to discuss next year’s Folk Day. Before I go ahead and publicise the meeting widely through the next newsletter (later this week or early next), I just wanted to check with some key players whether 17th is a convenient date. If you CANNOT make a meeting on that date please let me know ASAP. If a lot of you cannot make it I’ll postpone it until later – probably sometime in November.

The major item to discuss is an invitation from our landlord Mike Dobson to run the event over Saturday AND Sunday next year. After five years’ build up we are now doing the most we possibly can with a one day / one venue event. At the same time, none of the recent efforts to utilise the marquee on Sundays (jazz, indie bands) have been all that successful, and leave the rest of the pub under-used.

I’m ambivalent about the idea. What do you feel? We need to thrash it out.

The other big decision we need to make is date. Do we stick with the Saturday before the Bank Holiday weekend, which gets earlier and earlier in May (i.e. May 17 in 2008, May 16 in 2009, before reverting to May 22 in 2010), or do we switch to the Saturday AFTER the Bank Holiday (i.e. May 31 in 2008, May 30 in 2009, June 5 in 2010, etc). The first Folk Day was held AFTER the Bank Holiday (31 May 2003), but then we switched to the Saturday before in order to avoid going into June.