Priddy Folk Festival continues to please

Last weekend I dropped in a couple of times to the Priddy Folk Festival and wasn't disappointed. The parking was still relatively cheap and easy and I found nice sessions on the Saturday lunchtime and the Sunday lunchtime.

Saturday lunchtime I enjoyed an excellent English traditional music session at the Queen Victoria Priddy. It is a very traditional pub and suited the traditional English music we played beautifully. I could just imagine people like us playing the same or similar tunes a century ago, or even further back in time. I wonder if they imagined that we would still be playing their tunes today? (see photo top right).

Although weather forecasts were rather dire for the weekend, the weather stayed clement and Sunday lunchtime and afternoon was absolutely brilliant outside the New Inn, Priddy where we played mainly some great Irish folk music (photo left).

There is almost nothing better that I can think of than playing great tunes with some very fine musicians in the sunshine in the heart of the Mendips.

On the way back home across the Mendips I saw a glider take off at the Mendip Gliding Club - what an amazing sight.

There was a pulley system that literally pulled the glider into the air and then within seconds it was way up in the sky - all too fast to get a picture of the take-off, unfortunately. (Perhaps, on another occasion, I can come back and try again.)

It's amazing what you see when you are out and about :-)

Bye for now

Rob
(Rob Hopcott - online author and folk musician)