We’ve been attending the National Folk Festival (NASH) in Canberra every year (except the Covid ones) since 2014. It is held over the long Easter weekend and has the idealistic slogan “Five days in a perfect world”.

That might not be strange for long-time folkies like us but during most of those years we were pastors of a church, and some people were surprised (horrified?) we weren’t in church for all the Holy week activities. How could we go off to a folk festival and not be in church?