Nearly 21 months ago he and his wife Kay held the "45th and final" Cardrona Folk Music Festival at the 145-year-old Cardrona Hall, prior to their supposed retirement in Earnscleugh.
There, Mr Curtis discovered the Earnscleugh Hall, built in 1925.
A thought led to action and today Mr Curtis opens the doors to folk music fans from around the country for his re-imagined annual folk music festival.
"It’s a revival of the Cardrona festival, much smaller and less structured," he said last week.
"I am not bringing artists from overseas. It will be a bit like the one we had after Covid [in 2020]. Everyone who turns up gets to sing. We have a blackboard concert. You put your name down," he said.
Earnscleugh Hall fits about 100 people — slightly larger than the Cardrona Hall.
Dancing is encouraged and catered for, but there may not be much room for movement.
Earnscleugh does not have a snow-capped mountain as a backdrop but it does have a neighbouring orchard in bloom to admire.
Like Cardrona, there will be public toilets and a paddock to park campers, and people can pay to stay one or three nights, Mr Curtis said.
Unlike the Cardrona festival, the Earnscleugh event would not happen at Labour Weekend in October, because there was already a booking at Earnscleugh for that weekend.
The theme is "Welcome to Spring" and anyone can turn up anytime they like, he said.
There will be singing, dancing, bush poetry and jamming.
And about that jamming — complaints will not be accepted, the programme warns.
"We are here for the music, so if you hear singing or playing in the small hours, be tolerant.
"Either join in, or put in those earplugs."
