Another great 4th Sunday traditional folk tune session at the Hunters Inn, Heddon valley, North Devon, hosted by Ian Hudson last night with lots of traditional folk instrumentalists from Exmoor Border Morris, the always excellent piano accordion player Martin Hughes and a very welcome surprise visit from excellent folk music performers Hilary and John. (Thanks to John for taking the photo on the right).
Well today is Monday and I have had a fantastic weekend with a quick dash visit to Baring Gould Festival 2009 in Okehampton, Devon on Saturday, where I joined in a fantastic mainly traditional English folk music tunes session, and then the wonderful ambience of Hunters Inn, set in Exmoor’s beautiful Heddon Valley with its always friendly and welcoming proprietor David Orton.
Just a few days now before the free Bampton Folk Festival “After the Fair” which takes place October 30th to November 1st 2009. This folk festival is strongly based on traditional folk music sessions with as many as four folk music sessions going on at any one time from Friday evening right the way through to the survivors session on Sunday evening. In the past, it has featured visitors from as far away as France, with its Breton performers, and great singers and performers from Ireland and elsewhere in the UK.