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Hallo friends,


Fab weekend. Lets begin with Friday. I drove over to Leicester to be a part of the Big Session folk festival for the first time. 

Thanks to Craig Lewis form The Jitty for the snap and for being my guide for the evening. Read his write up here: http://www.thejitty.com/articles/jess-morgan-interview


We saw Cara Dillon straight after and it was the strangest thing... the ooohing and ahhhing of the football ground separated by paper-thin walls didn't for one mili-second ruin her show. I've never seen someone perform with such grace before... I'm afraid she made me feel like a tomboy from an enid blyton novel!


Managed to meet her after the gig too - hooray for the green room!


Now then, Saturday I was back at DeMontford Hall to watch my good friend Gren Bartley play - and he played a fab set of originals and traditionals with his good pal Tom Kitching.


Up early and on the road. Thanks Gren for doing all the driving. We headed up North to Beverley. Now this is a folk festival I'd been dying to get into for some time. Its crazy to think that having spent the formative years of my singer-songwritering life in York, that I haven't ventured further North than Lincoln for about four years! It was great to see some old faces and friends from the vibrant and thoroughly genuine music scene that I was lucky enough to briely scratch the surface of all those years ago. 


I played my set in a beautiful tent decorated in draped and cushions and buzzing with people collecting for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Gren and I were even privillaged enough to get to perform again (Thanks Miles) at the sort of informal finale bit in the wee small hours. Killing time in the green room we met u with Nashvillian duo Jeni and Billy. Meeting them was possibly the highlight of the day for me. Lovely lovely people and their CD is great!

So that was the weekend - I wish I could tell you more - but I've had about 5 hours sleep in 3 days so I'm not sure I'd do a great job on that.


'All Swell' has been getting some nice reviews lately and its great to know that some people are really just 'getting' the general vibe of the record. Though it won't all go to my head - it is music to my ears. 


Review from R2 mag thanks to Oz Hardwick
and a nice feature in EDP Norfolk Magazine (I wonder if Delia will read it!?)


The review from Maverick remains to be the proverbial fly in the ointment of my weekend! (** I'm putting this down to a bad combination of amateur journalism and mid life crisis ....just wish it wasn't smeared all over my pretty yellow record!)