Purbeck Valley Folk Festival - Filkin's Ensemble

backfilling on 21st

Lots of duos, trios, and of course a handful of foursomes... but fifteen? 

Back in the covid times there was at one stage a limit of fifteen people in one place, and this ensemble came together. How rare is that outside a theatre?

The fellow in the brownie red jumpsuit turned out to be a family relation of one of the couples in our camp, and he orchestrated the whole thing. I'm currently listening to their live CD, which goes some way to replicating some of the massive wall of sound they magicked up.

Impossible to imagine I'll ever see them again in that line-up. What a moment in time.