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FROM one really great day to three — Clith­ eroe's Great Days of Folk has come a long


way in four years. Firmly fixed on the cal-


endar nationwide, the festival has become a real favourite with visi­ tors and musicians alike and this year received another accolade, being dubbed "the friendly fes­ tival."


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ability to withstand all that the elements can throw at them are just two of the virtues that endear the folk festival visitors to local residents. This year


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was no exception. A magnificent line-up fea­


turing many bands rarely seen outside the major festi­ val circuits came to town. The visitors and locals rev­ elled in it, with Saturday night's concert featuring The Albion Band, the Poozies and Australia's Bernard Carney a sell-out. There was so much going


on between Friday's opening parish hall concert and Sun­ day's finales - a myriad of events which spoilt us for choice. They featured the newly-formed Clitheroe Town Band and Slaidburn Silver Band with Sabden folk singer and comedian Roger Westbrook at the Civic Hall, a festival ghost walk with Simon Entwistle, the Nic Dow Blues Band at the pub again at the heart of the festival, Clithoroe's New Inn, and Irish band Thistle at Waddington's Lower Buck. I t was difficult to know which was going to bring a fabulous weekend to a conclusion. In the end, officially it was the aptly- named "final concert" at the parish hall, with Bernard Wrigley, Jack McAuley and


Poor Mouth. The organisational effort


behind the scenes is to be much applauded and it was good to see the festival now spreading itself around, with numerous events in


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Waddington, as well as Clitheroe, over the weekend. Saturday's street displays provided a wonderful spec­ tacle for hundreds of shop­ pers. The town centre took on an additional vibrancy, due to dancing, music, circus acts and a nail-biting, death-defying stunt high above the crowds with an entertainer escaping from a straight jacket as 500 faces gazed upwards. For the first time in three years, the sun put in an appearance, too, and one visitor was heard to sayi "Doesn't it make you proud to be English." It was a wonderful spectacle and a wonderful day, which must have resulted in a spin-off


for trade. A new camp site was


established at the rugby club, Littlemoor Road. Last year, some campers at the St Michael and St John's RC School playground site had to abandon tents due to heavy rain. Organisers checked drainage at this


year's site in advance, but, as visitors headed for their tents on Friday night, the heavens opened again. For­ tunately, no one got a seri­ ous drenching. With many of the artists


being accommodated local­ ly, as well as visitors from throughout the country, space was at a premium in bed and breakfasts and TIC staff were kept busy for days in advance. Many of those visiting made a week of it, yet again adding to the inevitable tourism boost. It IS impossible to esti­


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mate how much effort goes into the event, but a work­ ing group, with 12 or so core members, meets monthly. One of them, Mrs Jill Brown, said on Monday, thanking everyone involved: "We have a lot of local sup­ port, for which we are indebted." Financially, it is too early


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yet to say whether this year's Great Days of Folk has broken even. Organisers are optimistic. European funding has been sought and obtained and both the borough and town councils have backed the event, along with a host of spon­ sors. It is hoped, in the next few weeks, to obtain chari­ table status, which should give an extra base on which to build an even better Great Days of Folk in the new millennium, if that is possible after this weekend’s


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