Musicians Summer Camps in the UK

At the recent Exmoor Folk Festival, I bumped into Pete and Nicole of Redwing, the barn dance duo and Pete mentioned Folk Camp activity holidays.

What a great idea. People meet up at a Folk Camp for a weekend or a week to play folk tunes in sessions. In addition, they camp, dance and, in general, do anything they want. It's open to people of all ages, families or single, it doesn't matter.

According to the Folk Camps web site

The Folk Camps Society is a not-for-profit holiday organisation run by its own members. The Society was founded in the early 60s when a group of folk enthusiasts decided it would be fun to go on holiday together, eat together and make their own entertainment without spending a fortune. We run holidays under canvas with an emphasis on folk dance, music and song. We welcome anybody from nought to ninety, singles and families.

It all sounds pretty good to me. They have a weekend camp on the 29th June 2007 at Beckford in Worcestershire. I've got nothing booked for that weekend yet as it's in between Teignmouth Folk Festival/ English Country Music weekend and Priddy Folk Festival.

Maybe I'll give it a try.

So many decisions!

Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online author and camper-van newbie)