2007 Folk Festival (now past)

Welcome to the new web site for the Lincoln Folk Festival. It's been set up as a blog to make it easy to maintain.

The 2007 Lincoln Folk Festival was held over the weekend of June 22nd & 23rd 2007. We drank the bar dry!

The timetable of the festival is pasted below.

Details of the 2008 Festival to follow.

The Autumn series of concerts will be held in the 'Unison Club', Beaumont Fee, Lincoln, LN1 1UL: details to follow.

As usual the 2007 Festival was held in and around Westgate Junior School, Lincoln.
Season tickets: £17.00 (£14.00 conc.)
Friday June 22nd: Mr Sid Kipper
(@ the 'Turks Head'- now closed)
supported by Damian Woodings.
Tickets: £8.00 (£6.00 conc.)

Saturday June 23rd included in the afternoon:
Workshop: Ragtime Guitar: Pete Wray (£2.50) Noon
Workshop: Harmony Singing (& how it works): Robin Garside (£2.50) 1.00 - 2.00pm
Lincolnshire Young Performers Showcase FREE 1.30 - 3.30pm
Children's Event: Story telling with Shonaleigh and 'Punch & Judy' with Robert Rae (£2.00) 2.15-3.30pm
'Jeff Woods Memorial Session' hosted by Robin Garside 3.00 onwards 'Victoria' - Bar
'Story-Go-Round with Shonaleigh' - All storytellers & listeners welcome. FFREE 3.30 - 5.30pm
'The Old Bakery', Burton Road.

'Lincolnshire Songs collected by Percy Grainger': presented by Brian Dawson. £2.50 3.45pm

Storytelling with Shonaleigh; the annual 'Jeff Woods' session with Robin Garside; 'The Grainger Collection' - Brian Dawson reveals some of the gems collected by Percy Grainger on his visits to Lincolnshire; 'Young Persons Concert'; 'Ragtime Guitar Workshop' with Pete Wray; 'Harmony singing' with Robin Garside

A Real Ale bar supported by the Lincoln Branch of CAMRA was available on the Saturday evening. Beers by Milestone Brewery, Cromwell.

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On the Saturday evening:
'A GRAND CONCERT' @ 7.15pm
(Doors open 6.30) Tickets: £10.00 (£8.00 conc.)

Vin Garbutt supported by Robin Garside, and Ed Korolyk & Gwen Brash.

Lincoln Folk Festival acknowledges the support given by Bailgate Methodist Church in the supply of chairs, and by the staff of Westgate Junior School . Thanks to Alan Watts of the 'Strugglers' for the loan of the glass washer, the 'Victoria' and the 'Old Bakery'.