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	Billingham International Folklore Festival - Annual festival (since 1965), NE England, early August. International folk music and dance. Founder member CIOFF, organisers of folklore festivals. Ticket prices, events, venues. Website also hosts official CIOFF UK site and folklore festivals directory.
	Alnwick International Music Festival - Annual festival (since 1976), NE England, early August. Traditional folk music and dance from around the world. Free-entry daytime open-air concerts; low-cost evening theatre performances. Details of past and forthcoming festivals. Friends' and Performers' pages.
	Chiddingly Festival - Sussex village arts, music and dance event. Provides an artist line-up and ticket information.
	Cambridge Folk Festival - Provides artist and ticket information for the annual event.
	Fylde Folk Festival - Annual weekend event, NW England, late August. Part of a larger folk-related site. Schedule of events, ticket prices, venue details, related links, brief notes on performers.
	Traditions - Free annual street festival of music, dance and performance. Provides news, photos, and a schedule of events.
	Sidmouth International Festival - Week-long annual folk festival, SW England, early August. Concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, late-night dancing, camp site. Details of ticket prices and all events.
	Ely Folk Weekend - Provides event listings, local maps, artist profiles, and ticket information for this annual festival in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
	Cambridge Folk Festival - A fans eye view of the annual festival.
	Bishops Castle Folk Weekend (Shropshire) - Sessions ceilidh and concerts. Campsite with facilities including showers. (Annual)
	Cambridge Folk Festival - BBC Radio 2 at the 2002 event, featuring reviews, pictures and exclusive live webcast.
	Upton Folk Festival - Annual event held in May. Traditional and modern music and dance: profile, programme, ticket and joining details.
	Otley Folk Festival - Details of artists, programme and facilities. Includes reports and photos of previous year's festival. (in September, annually)
	Beverley and East Riding Folk Festival - Details of artists, programme, street shows, and craft fair. Also information on workshops and sessions running through the year. (in June, annually)
	The National Folk Festival - Covers both the Scottish and English events, with details of the programmes, artists, workshops, venues, facilities, and ticket arrangements.
	fRoots Magazine: Festivals - A listing by country and month of Folk Festivals in the UK, regularly updated.
	Cornwall Folk Festival - Four day festival held in Wadebridge, with major and local artists. Includes ticket and camping information. Annual event held on the August Bank Holiday weekend.
	Bedworth Folk Festival - Includes information on events, venues, ticketing and facilities for this annual winter festival in Warwickshire.
	Wheaton Aston Festival - A rural Staffordshire celebration of music, song and dance. Includes dates, programme, and details of facilities. (Annual)
	The Pennine Festival of Music and Dance - Holmfirth. Information about artists, programme and facilities. (in May, annually.)
	Lichfield Folk Festival - Includes programme, and information about artists, dance diaplays, and booking details. (Annual, in June)
	Bridgnorth Folk Festival - Programme, performing artists and booking information for this Shrophire event. Includes reports and pictures from past years. (Annual, in August)
	Bromyard Folk Festival - Weekend of traditional song and dance in Herefordshire. Includes programme, ticketing and contact details. (Annual, in September)
	Milnathort Folk Festival - Information about the artists appearing, venues, and tickets. Includes pictures and biographies. (Annual, in March)
	Burntwood Folk Festival - Contains location details, what's on, and booking form. In Staffordshire.
	Wimborne Folk Festival - Annual event of Traditional Folk Dance and Song. Lists programme, performers and contact details.
	Mersey Shanty Festival - Annual celebration of sea songs and maritime music featuring British and international artists around Liverpool's historic Albert Dock. Includes programme and artist information.
	Shetland Folk Festival - Society that holds an annual festival of folk music from around the world. Information on past and future festival events.
	Droylsden Folk Festival - Programme details of a weekend folk festival in Manchester.
	Arran Folk Festival - Annual folk music festival held on the Isle of Arran, in June. Programme, artist information, and contact details.
	Association of Festival Organisers - Provides a channel of communication between festivals/events of all kinds. Information on conferences, services offered, and membership.
	The Border Gaitherin - Held annually in May, in Coldstream. Programme, accommodation, and booking details, with profiles of artists involved as tutors.
	The Celtic Festival of Wales - Festival of music and dance held annually in February, in Porthcawl, South Wales. Details of programme, artists and venue.
	Edinbane Community Music Festival - Held on Skye in July to promote and extend the musical culture of the township. Programme, profiles of artists, with details for contact, tickets and accommodation.
	Edinburgh International Harp Festival - Details of classes, workshops, concerts and events, with profiles of participating artists. Contact and booking information. In April.
	Feis an Eilein - Skye Festival of traditional music, song, dance, storytelling, theatre and film from the Gaelic and other traditions and beyond. Programme, artist profiles, and ticket details. In July.
	Fishguard Folk Festival - Folk music, song and dance festival, held annually in spring. Programme details, and photos of past events.
	Gatehouse of Fleet Festival - A 10 day celebration of folk, country, bluegrass, traditional music and arts -crafts show. Normally held in March.
	Glenfarg Village Folk Feast - Annual in April; information about programme, and the Folk Club who organise it.
	Hebridean Celtic Festival - Traditional and contemporary music on the Isle of Lewis in July. Programme, competition, and booking details.
	Highland Festival - Traditional and world music event in Inverness in June. Programme, venue and ticket information.
	Knockengorroch Festival - Celtic roots music event held twice yearly in Dumfriesshire. Details of line-up, tickets and for contact.
	Lomond Folk Festival - Held annually during July at Balloch, on the shores of Loch Lomond. Includes programme, contact details, and previous years' programmes.
	Lossiemouth Folk Club and Festival - Folk music festival and folk club information, held annually in July. Programme and contact details.
	Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival - Details of one of the oldest traditional music festivals in Scotland. Includes programme, contact and ticket details. Held in July.
	Pontardawe Festival - Celebration of world music, held annually in the Swansea Valley, South Wales. Programme and artist information, with contact details.
	Stonehaven Folk Festival - Held annually in July. Includes programme, reporting on previous years, and details for ticket sales and contact.
	Strathspey in May - Annual festival in Grantown-on-Spey focussing on instrumental, song-writing, voice and performance workshops. Programme and session listings.
	Tredegar House Folk Festival - Includes programme of festival and associated events, archive of previous festivals, and contact details.
	Women in Tune - Organises an annual Women's Music Festival in West Wales, every August. Information about programme, venue, facilities, fundraising, past festivals, and the organisation.
	Gig 'n The Bann - Cross cultural music festival in Co Antrim, in September. Includes events programme, artist profiles, and venue information.
	Fiddler's Green International Festival - Annual art and music festival in July, in Rostrevor, Co Down. Includes event programme, local accommodation and contact details.
	Celtic Fusion - Celtic music festival held in Castlewellan and Down District. Includes events programme, booking information and contacts.
	Back in Ballygawley - Held annually in Co Tyrone; includes entry form and details of the upcoming event. Aims in 2003 to be the biggest street ceili in the world.
	The Scots Fiddle Festival - Annual fiddle festival in Edinburgh, in November. Programme details for concerts, ceilidhs, recitals, workshops and talks. Also contact and ticket information.
	Keith Festival - Programme of this annual festival in Moray, keeping the traditions of the area alive. Includes information about competitions, and practical details of tickets, booking and accommodation.
	Eastbourne Lammas Festival - Festival of traditional music and dance on Eastbourne's seafront, organised for charity by the Eastbourne Pagan Circle. Featuring morris dancers, giants and musicians, a carnival procession and a ceremony on the beach.
	Plymouth Folk Festival - Annual event, held in July. Includes events schedule, and artist, ticket and accommodation details.
	The Portpatrick Folk Festival - Annual event, in September, held near Stranraer, Scotland. Includes information on schedule, venues, and booking.
	Isle of Jura Music Festival 2003 - A pictorial record of the festival in 2003 with Calisaig and Docias.
	Ceilidh Culture 2004 - Edinburgh, Celebration Traditional Arts - Ceilidh Culture is an annual programme of events in Edinburgh that celebrate traditional arts.
	The Home Of The Folk On The Pier Festival - Information about the festival
	Towersey Village Festival - Well established traditional music and dance event which takes place in Oxfordshire. Outlines the participating artists, events schedule, travel and accommodation arrangements and ticketing policy.
	AberFest Cornish and Breton Folk Festival - Biennial celebration of Cornish and Breton culture in music and dance. Archive of the 2004 event. Site will give event and booking details six months prior to the next festival.
	Feis Latharna - Annual Gaelic Arts Youth Tuition Festival in Oban, Argyll. Information on tutors, programme, and venue.
	Wath Upon Dearne Festival - Annual event in Yorkshire. Provides a listing of events, and ticket information.

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(Karl Marx) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Folk He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Folk "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. 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The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Folk History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Folk All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Folk The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Folk "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Folk Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Folk "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Folk Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Folk "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Folk I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Folk The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Folk Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler Folk We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Folk "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. 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