October songs

We spent last weekend at the Hartlepool Folk Festival, driving down in the morning and back late at night: it's a half hour drive, so that worked well. Events are shared between two venues: evening concerts in the Borough Hall on the Headland (currently heavily scaffolded, but no doubt it will be splendid when it's finished), while the daytime festival fills the National Museum of the Royal Navy:

HMS Tricomalee is a genuine early nineteenth century frigate, and the dock itself is also original, but the surrounding buildings are pastiche, a perfect little toytown port, with plenty of rooms for concerts and sessions, and a coffee shop in the corner.

( Yes, but what about the music? )