News Update November 2011

Good news bad news situation I’m afraid folks:

Good news is that we are working hard on putting in some festival and other dates in August 2012.
This is to take advantage of Dave Mattacks being in the UK to take part in Fairport’s Cropredy
Convention. We have a couple of dates in the book and festival enquiries out over the Bank Holiday
weekend. Please get in touch if you organise a festival or know someone who does.

Bad news is that we won’t now be appearing at The Great British Folk Festival in any shape
or guise. It’s a long story of failed communications which ended up with the decision to knock
it on the head for this year. No fall out with the organisers by the way and we’ll be talking to
them again about the event in 2012. The bill for this year looks fantastic anyway so check out
www.thegreatbritishfolkfestival.com for further details and really sorry it didn’t work out for us this
year.

Meantime, our 19th Spring Tour in 2012 is now all set – see the UK Tour page for full details.
We return to Wales with a second performance in Pontypridd at the Muni Arts Centre, make
our Blackpool debut at The Grand, appear in Lowdham, Notts for the first time and make a very
welcome return to the brilliantly restored City Varieties in Leeds – worth coming to that one just to
see the new decor! Really sorry we couldn’t make a Lincoln date work at The Drill Hall but we’ll be
back, rest assured.

Getting everyone’s diaries to synchronise for our Spring Tour is quite difficult as you might imagine.
In 2012 Phil’s touring and gig commitments mean he cannot make any of our performances. After
a long wait for news on overseas work that Chris is involved with, it turns out he will only be able
to join us for the second week of the tour. This means we’re currently deciding whether to ask old
friends to fill in for Chris for the first few dates or maybe coming up with something completely
different for your enhanced enjoyment of the show.....

Keep an eye on these pages for the latest news in the New Year and please bring your friends out to
see the show in 2012 – it’ll be a cracker!

All the best,
Feast of Fiddles