Here is what the artists said of the 2008 Festival

Robb Johnson – “Absolute respect for organising this. A great event! An honour to be involved.”

Attila The Stockbroker – “I really enjoyed it. Would LOVE to come back next year. Brilliantly organised. A real pleasure!”

Leon Rosselson – “I thoroughly enjoyed the concert.”

Dick Gaughan – “Would love to come back next year.”

A message from Roy Bailey

I congratulate everyone involved in making this event such a success. I have been involved in folk music and song for fifty years and I can claim some experience with this kind of celebratory event.

Enthusiasm for events of this kind was demonstrated by the reception of the programme I did with Tony Benn at the Liverpool Philharmonic in May earlier this year (The Writing on the Wall). A programme which was awarded in 2003 “Best Live Act” by BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Music and songs unite like-minded people across the world. These are songs that reach out and call to an ever widening community.

This festival, along with the RYB Festival are the only festivals that take as their theme the expression and development of political song.

At this time with a world increasingly dominated by the growing threat of environmental, economic and political catastrophe, these songs reveal a constituency of people who are seeking to confront these threats and for whom political song is a powerful means of giving encouragement and hope to millions of people.

To share the experience of this Festival confirms for us all that we are not alone and that there are many who share our ideals and aspirations.

There are often too few voices expressing our critique of political and economic policy.

Come to the Liverpool Working Class Music Festival. I am confident you won’t be disappointed.

I urge the organisers to continue with this festival as an annual event.