Bits of Bristol Folk Festival, Colston Hall 29th April to 1st May 2011

Been dancing around this all week, undecided whether to go for a lengthy narrative exposition of the events of three sweltering days spent folkin' around indoors over the May Day bank holiday, or whether instead to take the course of a series of monosyllabic reviews of the high- and low-lights of the Bristol Folk Festival.  The thesaurus having done a runner years ago, the latter seemed a little ... bold, so, a compromise seemed in order: brief comments on the best (or otherwise) of the music at the festival. 

By the way, the Show of Hands clip above is part of the series of acoustic sessions filmed for the bizarre and wonderful Songs from the Shed, which took up residence throughout the festival - and which, for reasons which still aren't clear, was selling branded t-shirts... 

Anyway, here goes.