SQUIRRELKICKER

OK, Here it is the first NUTS IN MAY SPECIAL podcast. Not every track on it is by someone appearing at the festival but I’ll tell you here who they are and in every subsequent podcast there will be more as they are announced... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer

YOU SAY GOODBYE AND I’LL SAY HELLO

I was intending this blog to be just another teaser about

 Nuts IN May

(though it still will be that and more) but I can’t let last Saturday (October 1st) go by without writing some thing here.

Sadly it saw the very last DRYSTONE SESSIONS at The Spinners Arms. The sessions started about eighteen months ago and for a time were run in tandem with WIZARDMARRAS SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE SPINNERS Open Mic nights... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer

SPOILERS!

Just because I can’t resist and I can be a real tease sometimes and as Big Scott has asked me so very nicely. Here’s a first la’al taste.

NUTS IN MAY will be Cumbria newest festival, small yet perfectly formed nestling in an idyllic location just outside Workington (yes, they can be found) where the elven folk dwell... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer

A CRACKING COUPLE OF FESTIVALS

It has been my very great pleasure in the past fortnight to go as a guest to two excellent festivals…

OFF THE TRACKS

at Isley Walton in Derbyshire and

THE DOCK OF THE BAY

at Glasson Dock near Lancaster, the former so called because it’s slap bang next the the Donnington Park racecourse and these days can be considered one of the elder statesmen among festivals as it has been going twice yearly for twenty three years and has established itself very nicely as one of the good ones serving up a decent helping of good music washed down with perhaps one of the best real ale bars you can find anywhere. Sixty, yes SIXTY different beers, ciders and perrys. I can be very happy at a place like that... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer

A FANTASY LINE UP FROM A SAD OLD MAN

Presenting the ultimate FANTASY LINE UP for a final farewell and to show my appreciation for everybody over the years who made THE DRYSTONE STAGE possible.

WIZARDMARRAS

NOT

THE DRYSTONE STAGE

2011

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FROM PEDALS TO PODCAST

Well as it’s high time I got this blog and my podcast updated I can’t have a better reason to do so than commemorate the 4th annual Spinners Arms sponsored cycle ride for Cancer Research and both the blog and the podcast are dedicated to this... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer

FAREWELL TO SOLFEST

Before I get down to the grimness I’ll put a full stop on the current  thread extoling the talent and success of Emma’s Imagination and it’s succinctly put. Following getting signed to Gary Barlow's Future records her Album Standing Still is released on January 10th and a new single version of This Day is released on Monday January 3rd.

Now for the hard bit.

Here’s a blog that I never thought I would write... To continue reading this post, please go to my website: Alan Whittaker is The Wizardmarra - Compère, Curator and Performer