Really lovely first Wild Traditions last night with Martin Simpson. Same brilliant format as Royal trads - 2 sets, house songs, tunes, singing session and of course a raffle. Great venue in Hillsborough Park.

Brilliant concert at The Greystones yesterday- @elizacarthy.bsky.social and friends (Finn Curran-Carthy, Nick Hart, Tim Van Eyken, Matt Quinn & George Sansome) celebrating the songs of Martin Carthy

Trip to the lovely Tebay services sonewhat impaired by horseradish 🤮

I had a go with using chatgpt to help with checking for events for @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social I was surprised how 💩 it was- in a way I was quite relieved.

Loving Music Planet on radio 3 with @angelcakepie2.bsky.social

Another bit of Dungworth singers at Royal Traditions, Dungworth. Our next concert is Friday 4th July At Tapton Hill Congregational Church, Manchester Road, 7.30PM £5 on the door

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I was really pleased to manage to sing in the first half of our concert at Royal Trads in Dungworth, 3 days after having my gall bladder out! Video from Georgia Stone

"I will take the blackthorn path..." lovely walk today and heard my first cuckoo

Still buzzing after a fantastic Sheffield Folk Sessions Festival. So great to see lots of enthusiastic and talented young people taking part. Video from the final big sing yesterday in an absolutely packed room at Shakespeares. I also enjoyed co-hosting a steady tunes session.

Brilliant Bagpuss Owls of Athens cushion that my mum made for me from a photo of the original cushion that Sandra Kerr showed us at her Bagpuss concert.

It was a fantastic evening- such a privilege to hear 2 brilliant performers completely unamplified in an intimate venue.

James Merryclough and I had a go at writing a brief guide to folk music in Sheffield (it's not all that brief...) tradfolk.co/folk-cities/...

Table Mountain on Monday- got up there before the cloud came over, not so lucky at Cape Point yesterday- although very atmospheric. Penguins at Boulders beach were brilliant

Lovely first couple of days in Cape Town

I'm Kathy. I run the @sheffieldfolkguide.bsky.social profile. I've set up a personal account to post occasional personal views and photos of what I'm doing (which will be mainly going to gigs!). I'm closing my personal twitter account.