Festival open 12 noon to 11pm - Saturday 22 September 2007

Welcome to (not the) Galtres Festival 2007. We're describing it like that as the Festival will be somewhat slimmed down from last year's extravaganza - the reasons are long and tedious and frustrating for the poor organisers, who have been working to resolve problems with venues, logistics, resources and so on for more than six months. But for the good news ... we are going to have a bash, and it should be pretty good fun. We're keeping it simple - a modest 20 barrels or so of ale and cider, a few acoustic acts and bands in one of the tents, a barbeque outside, a couple of workshops for the children, and that's about it. So the basic elements of a festival but without the frills - don't come expecting fairy stiltwalkers or a proper stage or laser lighting this year. This is of course better for the people involved, in that we should be able to have a good time of it ourselves instead of runnning around with walkie-talkies and clipboards, and we hope that the hundreds of volunteers, performers, sponsors etc from previous years' festivals will enjoy a right good stomp.

If you'd like to come, sign up via the link on the right and we'll send you details of where and when etc. You need to do this even if you've signed up already, as this is a new list for 2007.

For 2008 we've got big plans, and are well on the road to making it happen. We're looking to a bigger two-day festival with loads of bands on possibly two stages, a huge beer tent, loads of family entertainments and the return of the food festival too.