Song contest with maritime/nautical theme first prize money increased to £200 at Wessex Folk Festival, Weymouth, Dorset

The 2010 Wessex Folk Festival maritime/nautical themed song contest has been revamped to provide two opportunities, one for under 18s and one for 18+, giving even more incentive for a greater number of people to submit their songs to this popular song competition.

The Wessex region has a long and rich association with the sea and the Wessex Folk Festival Committee wish to take this opportunity to mark the part that Weymouth & Portland are going to play in hosting the 2012 sailing events with these prizes.

Submission details:

• £6.00 per song
• Entries to be received no later than 3 May 2010
• Entries to be submitted on tape, CD - please include printed lyrics.
• Remember to include your name and contact details
• If you want your tape/cd returned, please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope

Note: You can submit as many entries as you wish, but please ensure that you enclose £6.00 per song. If you don't pay your fee your song(s) will not be judged.

Judging:

Our judges will be scoring the songs out of 10, in each of the following categories:

• Relevance to the theme ("Maritime" or "Nautical")
• Appeal
• Memorability
• Lyrics
• Originality

Please see the Wessex Folk Festival website http://www.wessexfolkfestival.co.uk for more details and the entry form

The winner will be announced on 2nd June 2010

Early trade stall booking advised as Festival traders flock to book trade stalls spaces for Wessex Folk Festival 2009 Trinity Road, Weymouth, Dorset

The undoubted success of the Wessex Folk Festival in the Old Harbour area of Weymouth, Dorset last year seems to have spurred on festival traders to book trade stalls for Wessex Folk festival 2009 in ever increasing numbers along the new Trinity Road Old Harbour location in Weymouth, Dorset.

Last year was the first year Wessex Folk Festival arranged for trade stalls for arts, crafts, music and a wide variety of other festival stall traders appropriate to a music festival to display their products and services along Trinity Road which is the main artery through which people travel to reach the free music of the Wessex Folk Festival in Hope Square.

The success of this new arrangement has spurred festival traders to quickly book up stall spaces along Trinity Road, Weymouth for Wessex Folk Music Festival 2009 with bookings so far running at approximately six times last years numbers.

Fortunately, Trinity Road, with its attractive maritime backdrop of fishing and sailing boats in the Old Harbour provides lots of space as well as opportunity for festival trader stalls.

However, in view of the strong demand for festival trader stall spaces, festival traders who are keen to book trade stalls at Wessex Folk festival are strongly advised to contact Wessex Folk Festival Committee with their festival stall booking as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Simply email to pauljopenshaw (at) btinternet (dot) com (replace the bracketed letters with the appropriate symbols) and we will get back to you.

Bye for now

Dave

Dave Milner - Wessex Folk Festival Committee