North of England Steel Guitar Festival 2012

[Digby Hardy]

For your diaries: Saturday & Sunday, 11 & 12 August 2012, Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire

Tony Russel Davis and I are in the process of developing NESGF 2012, which will be held at the Buck Inn, Thornton Watlass in the second weekend in August.

Just like the South of England Steel Guitar Festival this is a festival for steel players of all levels to improve by actually playing their guitars. There are no auditions, just buy a ticket and come and play.

Details are still in the process of development but the essentials are:
Start - Saturday mid morning.
End - Sunday mid afternoon.
Amplification will be supplied.
Live backing will be available.
Bring your backing tracks if you prefer.

Thornton Watlass is roughly equidistant from Birmingham and Edinburgh - 160 miles, so we have a wide cachment area.

The Buck Inn provides accommodation and there is plenty of BnB lodging in the village and surrounds.

We will have a website up and running by early March.

If you want to know where Thornton Watlass is, it's here:

Thornton Watlass

The Buck Inn

If you have any questions you can contact me or Tony via this forum.

[Tony Russell Davis]

Hey - Mike at the pub tells me he's had the first room booking already! Don't miss out guys! All best, Tony

[Digby Hardy]

Tony - I've also booked my room at the Buck Inn, just to make sure.

I've only just published the SESGF 2012 website today. I'm starting work on the NESGF 2012 website later this week - hope to have it up and running sometime next week.

[Donny Johnston]

Digby, If there's room for another player, I would be very interested in coming.

[Digby Hardy]

Donny

There's plenty of room for players. The problem is that I have not had time to publish the website so players can book on-line.

Tony and I only met up last weekend at the Buck Inn and decided to go ahead.

I'll book you in provisionally (that makes 4 so far) and you can do it formally when the website is up - next week I hope.

Any chance of a photo of you with guitar? I put a photo of all attendees on the website so people will recognise each other when they meet.

See you in Thornton Watlass in August.

[Donny Johnston]

Hi Digby, If you PM me your email address I will send a photo, Thank you, Regards Donny.

[Donny Johnston]

Hi Digby,Thank you. I will attend to that ASAP.
Tony, I look forward to meeting you, Best regards, Donny.

[David Hartley]

Hello Digby, I have booked my room at the Buck too.
I will see you all there. Nice to see Donny is making it too.

I think you should try one in the South East too.
I still ain't got round to planning anything myself.

[Digby Hardy]

David

I told you I'd give you a hand on that one once I got the North thing going.
But we don't want to spoil the buggers for choice - not just yet.

[Donny Johnston]

Thanks Dave looking forward to it. Be nice to see your happy smiling face again.