I love my trio with Jude and Neil. It is such a pleasure to play and sing with these two people as we seem to blend so well together musically and personality wise. We had great comments at both gigs including a woman who said it was her highlight gig of the year so far.
The only disappointing thing about the trio gigs - our 45 minute set in the Bedford was cut to 30 mins and our 1 hour set in the Manor Pavilion Theatre was cut to 40 mins! I do find that frustrating as there are so many songs and tunes I want to do.
The Old Swan Band gigs went well although I should be honest and confess to being a little jaded after the trio gigs. I just put everything I have into those performances and there's not much left at the end. But as the Old Swan is an 8 piece band I can coast a little bit even if we were playing for 3 hours the first night and 2 the second.
On Thursday before I left I was invited to be part of a scratch band in the anchor gardens. It involved people like Saul Rose, Paul Sartan, Paul Downes, Ralphy Jordan and many more. As it was a non paid gig and definitely under reahearsed it was great fun to do and had some truely magical moments. I had such fun that instead of leaving after an hour to drive home I left at the end.
I was also pleased to have sold 8 Folk Against Fascism T'shirts in that lunchtime alone as well as others elsewhere so that's more  money to go back into the pot of this very important cause.
The festival looked after us really well with lovely accomodation and transport and help with instruments etc where necessary. So overall a very good feel good factor.
Next thing up is that I am playing on a Saga cruise with my sister i.e. 'The Fraser Sisters' next week, so I'll let you know how that goes.
Love to all. Jo