Dunstaffnage Music Festival 2008

The festival is held on a green field with views across Loch Linnhe to the Island of Lismore and in the shadow of Dunstaffnage Castle. Situated 2 hours from Glasgow and 1.5 miles outside the town of Oban, the site sits on the shore by Dunstaffnage Castle looking west to the islands of Lismore & Mull.

Dunstaffnage Music Festival (Oban) takes place on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th of July. With a capacity of 4000 per day and full camping facilities, the festival started as a birthday party in 1992, and has gently grown into a 2 day event with free camping facilities. The intimate atmosphere will this year be fed by 5 stages operating from mid-day till 1am delivering a high quality blend of national and international talent spanning new bands, Indie, rock, reggae, folk, Celtic, electronic, funk, soul, jazz, dance, film & comedy.

Bands playing the festival this year include Pama International, Isoscel, Al Shields, Miyagi, Injuns, The Electric Ghosts, Pop up, A band Called Quinn, Pretty Ugly, Sorren Maclean, Ming Ming & The Ching Ching's, eightpagepullout, Dj Wheelie Bin, Andy Pirie, Concrete Campfire, El Rancho Picante, and Croucher & Myles.

Tickets are priced at £60.00 for the weekend or £35.00 for the day, with free camping. A Family Ticket is priced at £150, and children 12 and under are free. To buy tickets, click here.

Although there is free camping on the festival site, revellers will be asked to donate at least 2 pounds each to the Cash For Kids Trust this year. The support of Cash for Kids ensures that, with the aid of festival-goers donations, children facing financial, emotional and physical challenges are given encouragement and comfort.

Additionally bands and VIP guests slipping in the back door were asked to make a donation to Nordoff Robbins Music therapy. The Nordoff Robbins Music therapy in Scotland allows therapists to use music to help children and adults with a wide range of needs arising from such varied causes as learning difficulties, mental and physical illness, physical and sexual abuse, stress and terminal illness. Emotional, cognitive and developmental needs can be addressed through interactive music making within a secure relationship offered by the music therapist.

This festival is run by people who want to give Scotland a more interesting events calendar and the programme has much more to offer than just music. An array of Art installations, street performers and puppet shows populate the site along with full food concessions to suit all tastes and licensed bar facilities open till 1am.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

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