I rambled, walked around Fred Barnfield’s haunts, and rambled, talked with people from the Black Country who knew Fred to create an audio piece that was installed in Wednesbury Library during Blast! Festival.

On final weekend of the festival I led a ‘ramble’ taking in locations in Wednesbury that were significant to Fred, and providing an opportunity to dig deeper into the stories that made him such a fascinating character. Ending up a Brunswick Park bandstand we had a picnic and listened to works by Beethoven performed by students from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.