{"id":185,"date":"2026-08-25T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/?page_id=185"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:13:19","slug":"directors-note","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/?page_id=185","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/euan_writes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/euan_writes.jpg 512w, https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/euan_writes-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<section class=\"festival-director\">\n\n    <h2>The festival director writes:<\/h2>\n\n    <p><em>Well\u2026.. That was fun.<\/em> Where to start with that weekend? I will try\u2026<\/p>\n\n    <p>Quite frankly the kindest, funniest collection of people I\u2019ve experienced on one site. People helping other people, people meeting and embracing other people and people\u2019s enjoyment levels were all something to behold.<\/p>\n\n    <p>We at PEFA hold everyone as equals, we feel this is also held as important by all our festival goers. This makes us immensely proud, thank you.<\/p>\n\n    <p>There are many things we know about and want to improve on (getting decent showers for a start) and with your help and support we will keep striving to get there.<\/p>\n\n    <p>Please <a href=\"mailto:info@folkale.co.uk\">email us<\/a> with your ideas and suggestions on how you think we should keep improving. We really do listen and act.<\/p>\n\n    <p>I don\u2019t want to start thanking individuals or teams because it really is a huge group effort to get this festival to where it it. We need all of you to add to this beautiful folky puzzle.<\/p>\n\n    <p>We are currently making plans to continue our amazing PEFA journey in 2027. Please keep an eye on the website and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/folkale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a> for further details.<\/p>\n\n    <p><em>With all love and thanks<\/em><\/p>\n\n    <p><strong>The PEFA team x<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festival director writes: Well\u2026.. That was fun. Where to start with that weekend? I will try\u2026 Quite frankly the kindest, funniest collection of people I\u2019ve experienced on one site. People helping other people, people meeting and embracing other people and people\u2019s enjoyment levels were all something to behold. We at PEFA hold everyone as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-185","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.folkale.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}